Of course the flip side is that when I'm sick I have the freedom to buy myself Vicks Vapor Rub and chicken soup.
Sherry Amatenstein
Helen Fisher: Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Dan Savage: The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
Wendy Shalit: Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self- Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good
Ed Young: Outrageous, Contagious Joy: Five Big Questions to Help You Discover One Great Life
Greg & Amiira Behrendt: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Theresa Peluso: Chicken Soup for the Dieter's Soul
Reformed Sinner Margo Z* knows her way around disastrous relationships. Chasing her kindergarten classmates around the monkey bars at recess blossomed into a full-blown addiction to fraternity bad boys. One passion-free marriage and divorce later, she threw herself headlong into a seven-year drama-packed roller coaster ride with the original Beautiful F***ed Up Man. Other notable achievements included falling hard for The Invisible Closet Case (so much fun, she did it twice!), and a brief stint as the North American record-holder for Most Consecutive ACOA Boyfriends.
Weary of starring in her own soap opera, Margo decided her approach could use an overhaul.
After an intense, year-long study of men, dating, marriage and male-female dynamics, she ditched her former BITCH (“Boys, I’m Taking Charge Here”) ways and embraced patience, traditionalism, and yes – The Rules (the ultimate weeding-out tool). Margo’s efforts were rewarded when she achieved her own personal Nirvana: a deeply happy and fulfilling marriage at midlife to Josh, a bright, cool, fun-loving, intensely affectionate laid-back younger guy who truly “gets it.”
Margo, a writer by trade, lives in the Midwest with her husband of two years and several unbelievably spoiled furry creatures. They are childless by choice. It’s Josh’s first (make that, only) marriage.
*Name changed to protect the formerly clueless