What No One Tells the Bride: Surviving the Wedding, Sex After the Honeymoon, Second Thoughts, Wedding Cake Freezer Burn, Becoming Your Mother, Screaming about Money, Screaming about In-Laws, etc. - Softcover

Stark, Marg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 078688262X ISBN 13: 9780786882625

Publisher: Hyperion, 1998

Synopsis

What No One Tells the Bride is the inside scoop--good and bad--on what it's really like being married. In these pages, journalist Marg Stark breaks the newlywed code of silence and exposes the profound adjustments brides often experience. Stark and 50 married women tell their stories--showing others how to handle turbulence on cloud nine--and reveal marital truths, such as:

• You don't feel like a "Mrs." Sometimes you even dream about old boyfriends.
• You write all the wedding gift thank-you notes. So you are doomed to your mother's life--60 years of doing more than your share?
• Making love is the last thing on your mind when you have the flu and haven't showered for days. But he still wants to.
• You tell him you got these incredible bargains and quietly resent having to justify your spending.
• You have shining moments when marriage feels absolutely right, but nevertheless you pine for something more.

Humorous and compassionate--with advice from marriage counselors, ministers, financial advisors, and sex therapists--What No One Tells the Bride is not only a practical guide for every newly married woman, it also makes the perfect wedding shower gifts.

About this title

About the Author:

Marg Stark is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in national and regional magazines, and the co-author of Timeless Healing with Dr. Herbert Benson. She and her husband have been married since 1995. They are still considered newlyweds by many.

From Library Journal:

Stark (Timeless Healing, LJ 5/15/96) has written a readable self-help guide for brides-to-be and newlyweds who are trying to adjust to this often anxiety-ridden passage in life and to solve the consequent identity crisis. Chapters touch on wedding postpartum, handling money squabbles, falling prey to stereotypes, timing pregnancies, and communication and criticism in a marriage. The text is interspersed with comments from the 50 (mostly white, middle-class) women whom Stark surveyed and interviewed. The result is a "feel good" book whose aim is to reassure newlyweds that their fears and anxieties are normal. Much of it reads like a woman's magazine article, offering somewhat simplistic advice: "breath deeply, and believe that your venture into love will succeed." But Stark does have a clear, readable style and a reassuring sincerity in drawing from her own life as well as others. A bibliography of about 14 books (mostly other self-help books) follows the text. Recommended for public libraries.AAnn Babits Grice, East Brunswick P.L., NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 078688262X
• ISBN 13: 9780786882625
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320