Publisher's Synopsis
For years, hundreds of thousands of readers have enjoyed Judith Viorst's poetry and prose on the challenging, sometimes hilarious subject of her own marriage. Now, in this thought-provoking new book, she explores what a grown-up marriage means and helps married couples of every age and at every stage figure out how to have one.
Blending interviews with married women and men, the findings of couples therapists, the truths found in literature and movies, and a bemused exploration of her own marriage, Viorst illuminates the issues couples struggle with from 'I do' to 'till death do us part.' She examines marital rivalry, marital manners, marital sex (not always with the person to whom we've married), fighting and apologies and the boredom and the bliss of ordinary, everyday married life. All aspects of marriage - from the early years when we wonder 'Who is this person?' and 'What am I doing here?' to divorcing or almost divorcing, marrying again, growing older and old together - are explored with honesty, humanity and humour.
