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A pocket guide for staying together that offers the latest scientific data, personal anecdotes, and advice, and makes the case that staying married may be the best thing for your health, your finances, and your chance at happiness, by an award-winning Time magazine journalist. Surveying the latest science and folding it into her very funny, engaging, and candid knack for storytelling, Belinda Luscombe has written a fresh and persuasive report on the state of our unions. The six chapters in the book examine the six major faultines that can fracture a marriage, Luscombe's F-words: familiarity, fighting, family, finances, fooling around, and finding help. She presents facts, debunks myths, provides an entertaining mix of data, anecdotes, and wisdome from a wide range of approaches to married life, as well as experts and therapists of the wedding/marriage/divorce industries. The idea is to give the reader something to think about and maybe try, whether the marriage in question is on the brink of collapse or just needs a bit of maintenance on the foundations.
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A brief, comic, informative guide that offers the latest scientific data and personal anecdotes that makes the case, and offers advice, for staying in a marriage for the long run, by an award-winning Time magazine journalist. A pocket guide for staying together, Belinda Luscombe has written a funny and deeply reported book based on her hugely popular Time magazine story, "How to Stay Married." Surveying the latest science and folding it into her very funny, engaging, and candid knack for storytelling, the result is a fresh and persuasive report on the state of our unions, and why staying married may be the best thing for your health, your finances, and your chance at happiness. The six chapters in the book examine the six major faultines that can fracture a marriage, Luscombe's F-words: familiarity, fighting, family, finances, foreplay, finding help. She presents facts, debunks myths, provides an entertaining mix of data, anecdotes, and wisdome from a wide range of approaches to married life, as well as experts and therapists of the wedding/marriage/divorce industries. The idea is to give the reader something to think about and maybe try, whether the marriage in question is on the brink of collapse or just needs a bit of maintenance on the foundations.
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A guide to staying together that combines the latest scientific data, personal anecdotes, and advice, arguing that marriage is better for your health, your finances, and your happiness, by an award-winning Time journalist. Surveying the latest science and folding it into her funny, engaging, and candid knack for storytelling, Belinda Luscombe has written a fresh and persuasive report on the state of our unions. This book examine the six major faultines that can fracture a marriage, also known as Luscombe's F-words: familiarity, fighting, family, finances, fooling around, and finding help. She presents facts, debunks myths, provides an entertaining mix of data, anecdotes, and wisdom from a wide range of approaches to married life, as well as experts and therapists of the wedding, marriage and divorce industries. Marriageology gives the reader something to think about and maybe try, whether the marriage in question is on the brink of collapse or just needs a bit of maintenance on the foundations.
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A smart and concise guide to staying together that draws on scientific findings, expert advice, and years in the marital trenches to explain why marriage is better for your health, your finances, your kids, and your happiness Like you, probably, Belinda Luscombe would rather have had her eyes put out than read a book about marriage; they all seemed full of advice that was obvious, useless, or bad. Plus, they were boring. But after covering the relationship beat for Time magazine for ten years, she realized there was a surprisingly upbeat and little-known story to tell about the benefits of staying together for the long haul. Casting a witty, candid, and probing eye on the latest behavioral science, Luscombe has written a fresh and persuasive report on the state of our unions, how they've changed from the marriages of our parents' era, and what those changes mean for the happiness of this most intimate and important of our relationships.
In Marriageology Luscombe examines the six major fault lines that can fracture contemporary marriages, also known as the F-words: familiarity, fighting, finances, family, fooling around, and finding help. She presents facts, debunks myths, and provides a fascinating mix of research, anecdotes, and wisdom from a wide range of approaches--from how properly dividing up chores can result in a better sex life to the benefits of fighting with your spouse (though not in the car) to whether or not to tell your partner that you lost $70,000. (The last one is from firsthand experience.)
Marriageology offers simple, actionable, maybe even borderline fun techniques and tips to try, whether the relationship in question is about to conk out or just needs a little grease and an oil change. The best news of all is that sticking together is easier than it looks.