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MARRY HIM

Lori Gottlieb

The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

An eye-opening, funny, painful, and always truthful in-depth examination of modern relationships and a wake-up call for single women about getting real about Mr. Right.
You have a fulfilling job, great friends, and the perfect apartment. So what if you haven't found "The One" just yet. He'll come along someday, right?

But what if he doesn't? Or what if Mr. Right had been, well, Mr. Right in Front of You - but you passed him by? Nearing forty and still single, journalist Lori Gottlieb started to wonder: What makes for lasting romantic fulfillment, and are we looking for those qualities when we're dating? Are we too picky about trivial things that don't matter, and not picky enough about the often overlooked things that do?

In MARRY HIM, Gottlieb explores an all-too-common dilemma - how to reconcile the desire for a happy marriage with a list of must-haves and deal-breakers so long and complicated that many great guys get misguidedly eliminated. On a quest to find the answer, Gottlieb sets out on her own journey in search of love, discovering wisdom and surprising insights from sociologists and neurobiologists, marital researchers and behavioral economists - as well as single and married men and women of all generations.

Lori Gottlieb is the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, which has sold over a million copies and is currently being adapted as a television series. In addition to her clinical therapy practice, she writes The Atlantic's weekly Dear Therapist advice column and co-hosts the popular Dear Therapists podcast, produced by Katie Couric, where listeners can hear weekly sessions with guests. Recently, her viral TED Talk was one of the Top 10 Most Watched of the Year. Lori is a member of the Advisory Council for Bring Change to Mind, and is a sought-after expert on mental health in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR's "Fresh Air."
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Published 2010-02-04 by Dutton

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Part The Rules, part Malcolm Gladwellian sociopop, Marry Him... is surprisingly, unnervingly convincing.

A provocative pop culture treatise... Gottlieb encourages us to think through our own beliefs and unexamined assumptions.

An unexpected delight. Lori Gottlieb offers herself up as Exhibit A - that's A for 'Alone' - in this unsparing exploration of the contemporary mating scene. Part cautionary memoir, part field study, her account of her own stalled search for a husband is honest and darkly comic... The truth isn't pretty, but it can be liberating.

Funny and relatable... anything but antiromance.

Marry Him shows women how to find true happiness when seeking loveby giving them a new way to look at the world. Gottlieb manages to be hilarious yet thought-provoking, light-hearted yet profound on the questions of: Why do we fall in love? What qualities really matter in a marriage? For what reasons do we make the decisions that affect our whole lives? Marry Him will set people talking for years.