Title:
1001 questions to ask before you get married / Monica Mendez Leahy.
ISBN:
9780071438032
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : McGraw-Hill, [2004]
©2004
Physical Description:
xxiii, 231 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
How to Discuss Your Differences -- Your Past -- Growing Up in a Traditional Family -- Growing Up with Divorced or Single Parents -- Impact and Influences of Other Relationships -- At School and Play -- Your Past: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Parents and In-Laws -- Are We Our Parents? -- Spending Time with Parents -- One Big Happy Family -- Parents and In-Laws: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Significant Others -- Relatives -- Friends -- Pets -- Exes and Past Relationships -- Relating to Others -- Significant Others: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Children -- How Many, if Any? -- Reasons to Conceive -- Raising a Baby -- Financing a Family -- Stepchildren and Guardianship -- How Would You Respond? -- Children: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Perspectives -- Religion and Spirituality -- Race and Culture -- Politics -- Careers -- Seven Years Later -- Your Future -- Perspectives: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Daily Life and Lifestyles -- Who Will Do What? -- Daily Routine -- Changes -- Do You Mind? -- Daily Life and Lifestyles: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Leisure Time -- How You Relax -- Planning a Trip -- Your Traveling Style -- Are We Having Fun Yet? -- Leisure Time: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Finances -- Saving and Spending Styles -- Managing Your Money -- When Times Get Tough -- Money Honesty -- Our First Budget -- Your Marriage, Money, and the Law -- Financial Checklist -- Finances: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Physical Intimacy -- What, Where, and How Often? -- Let's Get Physical -- What Would You Do? -- Honor and Trust -- Physical Intimacy: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Emotional Intimacy -- The Real You -- Showing How You Feel -- Saying "I Love You" -- Are You Good for Each Other? -- Are You Bad for Each Other? -- Emotional Intimacy: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Special Situations -- Marrying Someone in the Military -- Marrying a Noncitizen -- Marrying a Criminal -- Marrying a Celebrity -- Marrying Someone Significantly Older or Younger -- Special Situations: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Your Wedding -- Getting Married -- Your Wedding -- Family, Guests, and Attendants -- Remarriage -- To Have and to ... Hold On! -- Your Honeymoon -- Your Wedding: Thoughts on Your Answers -- Marriage Builders or Breakers -- Living Together Before Marriage -- Communication -- The Friendship Factor -- Reasons to Reconsider Marriage -- Personality Types -- Habits That Drive Couples Apart -- Spousal Ten Commandments.
Summary:
Love can be bliss, but marriage takes work. Communication, compromise, and joint decision making are key ingredients to a successful marriage. Using a variety of fun, interactive formats, including multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and hypotheticals, relationship expert Monica Mendez Leahy brings to the table these and many other important issues that will arise in every marriage--including the ones that may blindside you. 1,001 Questions to Ask Before You Get Married will help you and your partner explore your common goals and perspectives as well as celebrate your unique differences as you prepare for your life journey together. Through the questions posed in this book, you and your betrothed will explore fundamental questions about nature, thought processes, lifestyle, and marital expectations, including: a) Is there such a thing as innocent flirting?; b) Do you both want children?; c) How important is religion in your life? ; and d) Do you think couples should share the same political views?
OCLC Number:
ocm53215798
Availability:
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
