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Wedding toasts I'll never give / Ada Calhoun.

by Calhoun, Ada.

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W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

Calhoun, Ada -- Marriage.

Marriage -- United States.

Spouses -- United States.

Love -- United States.

Women journalists -- United States -- Essays.

9780393254792 (hc.)

192 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Ada Calhoun, acclaimed for her provocative essays in the New York Times Modern Love and Lives columns, 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. These 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. 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. Ada Calhoun is the author of Instinctive Parenting: trusting ourselves to raise good kids.

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