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Wedding toasts I'll never give, Ada Calhoun

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Wedding toasts I'll never give, Ada Calhoun

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wedding toasts I'll never give

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Responsibility statement

Ada Calhoun

Summary

In Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, Ada Calhoun 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. Calhoun's 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. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give offers 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. What a burden, Calhoun calls marriage, and what a gift

Table Of Contents

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

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