A Little Bit Married: How to Know When It's Time to Walk Down the Aisle or Out the Door

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Author: Hannah Seligson

ISBN-10: 0738213160

ISBN-13: 9780738213163

Category: Family Relationships

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Quarterlife Crisis meets Why Men Marry Bitches: A guide to successfully navigating the long-term relationship years, for any woman wondering, “So...where’s the ring?” Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Seligson's tidy handbook takes a clarifying look at the confusing and often frustrating world of long-term relationships, those open-ended multi-year affairs that could be described as "a little bit" like marriage. Putting extensive research into practical, everyday language, Seligson starts by defining the phenomenon with both broad social context and acute symptoms ("Does he value bromance more than romance?"), developing snappy common-sense lessons ("Thou shalt not move in together to save money"). Practical advice for making decisions and carrying through follows; an especially honest and illuminating chapter on "The Female Proposal" focuses on the reasons for wanting to get married, asking readers to "propose to yourself" first. Seligson's breezy style nearly obscures her intense original research, including 120 interviews with relationship vets and input from 30 professionals (an appendix contains brief profiles of all 150). Seligson even includes research into the market for her book: according to the U.S. Census Bureau, one out of 10 unmarried couples live together-that's 10.4 million people, all of whom (and not just women) could benefit from this clear-headed approach to making the big decision: marry or move on. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Introduction 11 First Comes Love, Then Comes A Little Bit Married: Why the Long-Relationship Has Become the New Romantic Rite of Passage 92 Dating Peter Pan: You're Ready to Register at Pottery Barn and He's Playing Grand Theft Auto 313 Career Compromises and Christmas Trees: Should You Be Acting Married When You Aren't? 514 Playing House: The Cohabitation Commandments 715 Are We There Yet?: The Female Proposal 996 I Do. Or Do I?: Handling Doubts 1237 Walking Out the Door: How to Go from A Little Bit Married to Very Broken Up 1538 Walking Down the Aisle: Lessons from Matrimony 175Meet The Interviewed 193Acknowledgments 205Notes 207Index 217