No Cheating, No Dying
I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried To Make It Better.
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Publisher Description
Written with charm and wit, No Cheating, No Dying investigates one of the most universal human institutions—marriage. Elizabeth Weil and her husband Dan have two basic ground rules for their marriage: no cheating, no dying. For ten years it’s worked fine, but Elizabeth started to wonder if it could be better.
Elizabeth Weil believes that you don’t get married in a white dress, in front of all your future in-laws and ex-boyfriends but gradually, over time, through all the road rage incidents and pre-colonoscopy enemas, good and bad dinners, and all the small moments you never expected to happen or much less endure. In this book, Weil examines the major universal marriage issues—sex, money, mental health, in-laws, children—through bravely recounting her own hilarious, messy, and sometimes difficult relationship. She seeks out the advice of financial planners, psychoanalysts, therapists, household management consultants, priests, rabbis, and the United States government. Woven into this funny and forthright narrative is Weil's extensive research on marriage and marriage improvement. The result is an illuminating and entertaining read that is a fresh addition to the body of literature about marriage.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nearly a decade into what was already a good marriage despite a lost pregnancy and religious and temperamental differences Weil spent a year actively improving her union by gleaning wisdom from self-help books, and with her husband, a fellow writer, sampling couples counseling, sex therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy. This is a more verbose and unnecessary outgrowth of a New York Times Magazine cover story, but Weil's candid, self-deprecatingly amusing tone and her sane, perceptive "let's-fix-it-before-it-breaks" advice should inspire other couples to approach their marriages with similar care and vigor.
Customer Reviews
Loved this book
Amazingly funny and charming