How to Keep Your Marriage From Sucking - Paperback

by Greg Behrendt (Author), Amiira Ruotola (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.

"Amiira Ruotola took to writing after retiring from a tremendously adventurous career the music business at a young age with little hearing left to speak of. Amiira and her TV writing partners have sold several scripts to FOX, CBS and NBC and she currently is developing a one-hour YA procedural with Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films for YouTubeRed and continues to work in the relationship field. She cannot keep fish alive and may or may not have been raised by spies. Together, Amiira and Greg have written It's Called A Breakup Because It's Broken and It's Just A F***ing Date. They appeared with Oprah Winfrey for an Oprah's Lifeclass based on their work, and they now host the podcast Maybe It's You. They live in Los Angeles, raising their two ridiculously incredible children and three dogs."