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How to Be Married
How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Six Continents about Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage | Jo Piazza
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Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it. At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Gal?pagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world where you no longer need to be married? How does an independent, strong-willed feminist become someone's partner--all the time? In the tradition of writers such as Nora Ephron and Elizabeth Gilbert, award-winning journalist and nationally bestselling author Jo Piazza writes a provocative memoir of a real first year of marriage that will forever change the way we look at matrimony. A travel editor constantly on the move, Jo journeys to twenty countries on five continents to figure out what modern marriage means. Throughout this stunning, funny, warm, and wise personal narrative, she gleans wisdom from matrilineal tribeswomen, French ladies who lunch, Orthodox Jewish moms, Swedish stay-at-home dads, polygamous warriors, and Dutch prostitutes. Written with refreshing candor, elegant prose, astute reporting, and hilarious insight into the human psyche, How to Be Married offers an honest portrait of an utterly charming couple. When life throws more at them than they ever expected--a terrifying health diagnosis, sick parents to care for, unemployment--they ultimately create a fresh understanding of what it means to be equal partners during the good and bad times. Through their journey, they reveal a framework that will help the rest of us keep our marriages strong, from engagement into the newlywed years and beyond.
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#NFNov It looks at marriage in different cultures. Piazza visits different places to understand what makes a marriage work and what doesn‘t. She tries to look objectively without letting her preconceptions come in the way. The best advice is from Michelle Obama, “If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don‘t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.”

Clwojick 6pt 5y
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#TIL about “the stock and bond approach to the marital division of labor. One spouse has to be the bond, the one without risk, with a dependable payout. If that‘s the case, the other can be the stock, focusing on something that could pay off big in the long-term. Of course it‘s only fair if the partners keep switching who is the stock and who is the bond“

This seems interesting and something that can be implemented.
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Clwojick 4pt 5y
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“Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. —Lucille Ball
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“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.“ —Paulo Cohelo.
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#TIL that “Peter Pearson‘s acronym “TEAM” stands for “Together Each Accomplishes More.” “When you do something on your own, you aren‘t as successful,” he said. “You and your partner need to have an agreement to coach one another, to tell one another what works for you and what doesn‘t work for you. When you start doing that, your relationship really starts to hum and the hidden capacities of the team start to surface.”

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Clwojick 4pt 5y
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#TIL that marriage is “an equal sharing of the road. I suspect the best marriages are when you‘re both submitting to each other and allowing the other person to feel safest during their most vulnerable moments, and shine at their best.”

Have read this in other books but this resonates as it also defines submission in marriage. #NFNov

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#TIL that both men and women have a strong need “for adventure, for novelty, for mystery, for risk, for danger, for the unknown, for the unexpected, surprise, for journey, for travel.”

Reminder to keep surprising your partner, and taking care of yourself too!

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So enjoyable! Great for anyone in a committed relationship or marriage.

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When Jo &Nick get married they go on a quest to discover what makes a happy lasting marriage.In France Jo is told to always wear sexy underwear &flirt with her husband From culture to culture they look for answers.While learning to establish their own marriage darling with Jos'/shocking medical diagnosis &wanting to start a family,An honest real lovely guide to marriage.

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Suet624 💕💕💕 7y
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This memoir of marriage and travel is really fun so far!

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Nothing comes between a girl and her dog.

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Xheathurr
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Searching for marriage advice before the big day. 💜

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Sarah.Kat
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"Longed for him. Got him. Shit."
- Margaret Atwood

I think I'll enjoy this book!

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