Wedding Toasts I'Ll Never Give

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clich?s around marriageùeternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul matesùleave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouseÆs mistakes, you might miss being single. In Wedding Toasts IÆll Never Give, Ada Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which ôthe first twenty years are the hardest.ö CalhounÆs funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts IÆll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. ôWhat a burden,ö Calhoun calls marriage, ôand what a gift.ö

• | Author: Ada Calhoun
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: Jun 05, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 0393356000
• | ISBN-13: 9780393356007