From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: Take the path they didn't
What is the problem to which marriage is the solution?
Storytelling: There's an arc there, somewhere
You can be right or you can be happy
Tight grips and loose arms
Reading minds and accepting appearances
Everyone's fucking the nanny
Gratuitous time-out: and yes, I meant everyone is fucking the nanny
Married people: pretend you're not
Go without or go elsewhere
Did you spend more time shopping for your car or for your spouse?
Actually, past performance is indicative of future results
The five kinds of infidelity
Infidelity type #3: the mistake
It's so much easier to change the other person
Gratuitous time-out: Lie to me; everybody else does
The you, the me, and the we
If we were designing an infidelity-generating machine, it would be Facebook
One of the pillars of marriage is sex
We know what we know until we may not want to know it
Gratuitous time-out: I love my job, except for when I hate it
You never go to bed with just one person
what you're getting and what you're giving
The myth of the perfect parent
You divorce who you married
Gratuitous time-out: The case of the shrinking penis
Intimacy weaponized, Part I
Intimacy weaponized, Part II: Cross-examination
Gratuitous time-out: How not to let yourself be cross-examined
Yours, mine, and ours: the financial system that works best
Acceptance: You have to love the bad parts, too
The secret that shouldn't be a secret: just give a shit
