We Used to Be in Love and Now We Work Here: How To Stop Working at Marriage and Make Marriage Work for You

About this book

You did it! You put a ring on it! Honeymoon, too! Newlywed bliss!But now you REALLY have to marry your lives today, think about a family, maybe make a family, actually RAISE these kids, keep your career ambitions going while keeping your relationship going, get older, keep the fire burning, manage joint finances, bills and bills and bills, keep house together, manage meals together, take the kids to practice and SAT tutoring, …. HOLY SHIT! It’s become work, a fulltime job! Now add in real life crisis, she loses her job, he gets sick, there’s a death in the family, you’re feeling disconnected, you have capital “P” Problems, things are not going smoothly and no one knows how to talk about.Greg and Amiira are tackling real problems to help you get through the rough patches and make the work of marriage a job you’re excited to show up for again. They explore all the adventures of modern wedlock, from the moment the honeymoon is over, 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.