How to Keep Your Marriage from Suckin..., Greg Behrendt
How to Keep Your Marriage from Suckin..., Greg Behrendt
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How to Keep Your Marriage from Sucking
The Keys to Keep Your Wedlock Out of Deadlock

Author: Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola

Narrator: Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola

Unabridged: 5 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2018


Synopsis

A hilarious and hopeful primer to prevent, combat, and eliminate the suckage in modern marriage by doing it right in the early years, from one of the minds behind the series Sex and the City and the New York Times bestselling authors of He’s Just Not That Into You, It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken, and It’s Just a F***ing DateSome marriages start out storybook. Perfect proposal, perfect engagement, perfect wedding, perfect honeymoon, and perfect newlywed years.Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola stumbled right out of the wedding gate. Their choices in the early years, they’ll tell you, nearly bought their marriage a one-way ticket to Suckville.The New York Times bestselling authors explore all the adventures of early wedlock, from the moment one of you gets on one knee to the day when sex starts to feel like work instead of play. In this guidebook, Behrendt and Ruotola explore their own marriage and, with gleeful candor, tremendous warmth, sharp humor, and piercing insight, look at what we who have decided to “settle down” hope to get out of our most lasting relationship. We venture through volumes on the engagement, wedding planning, the Big Day, the wedding hangover, the (blissful?) first year, the hard work of marrying two lives, fights, and sex-pectations versus sex-pectreality.The perfect book for those who have just put a ring on it or are thinking of putting a ring on it, Behrendt and Ruotola’s work is a brilliant guide for the first stretch of that wild ride we call marriage.

About Greg Behrendt

Greg Behrendt is a comedian, author and musician. Co-author of the New York Times bestselling book He’s Just Not That Into You, which was adapted into a major motion picture, he was also a script consultant to the series Sex and the City. Greg currently spends time parenting, touring as a standup, recording his podcast Rock Out with Your Doc Out with Kay Hanley, and playing with his band The Reigning Monarchs. He someday hopes to lie down.

About Amiira Ruotola

Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt is a former record executive and current full-time writer and mom. She lives with her huspband, Greg Behrendt, in Los Angeles, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Diana on January 07, 2019

I have said it before and I'll say it again: the book "He's Just Not that Into You" changed my life when I was 25 and single. Now, at 35 and newlywed, this book...did not. It was kind of interesting but also kind of weird. I am not sure who this book is for. Is it for newlyweds? Is it for people in......more

Goodreads review by Tara on June 08, 2019

Highly disappointing. I’d say the last 30 pages were useful. The majority of the book is about planning the perfect proposal (and let’s face it-the majority of his readers are women who will never plan a proposal, ever), planning the perfect wedding, setting up a registry (we really need a chapter o......more

Goodreads review by Sadistic on October 13, 2018

I found this book boring. Going on & on about this or that. I got this from netgalley for my honest opinion. While I understand not every marriage is the same, but I didn't find anything relatable......more

Goodreads review by Sherrie on July 29, 2018

Entertaining. Meant for new marriages, but as someone married for 30+ years, it really made me laugh. Some is so true!......more

Goodreads review by Haley on February 04, 2020

I’m a fan of his books, but this one I didn’t like as well as the others. It’s an ok read.......more