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Wedding toasts I'll never give, Ada Calhoun

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Wedding toasts I'll never give, Ada Calhoun

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references"Toward a more realistic reception playlist": page 165

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contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wedding toasts I'll never give

Nature of contents

discographiesbibliography

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959034186

Responsibility statement

Ada Calhoun

Summary

"We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clichés around marriage--eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates--leave 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 spouse's mistakes, you might miss being single. In [this book], 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 'the first twenty years are the hardest.' Calhoun's ... essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together."--Front flap of jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction: "Do you know why you're here?" -- Toast 1: paying for each other's mistakes -- Toast 2: the boring parts -- Toast 3: containing multitudes -- Toast 4: the truth about soul mates -- Toast 5: fighting in rental cars -- Toast 6: other people, other cities -- Toast 7: "love is strong as death" -- Epilogue: one toast I would actually give

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Wedding toasts I will never give

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