Hitched: The Go-Girl Guide to the First Year of Marriage

Book Description
If you're like most brides, you've spent more time pondering wedding favors and exotic honeymoon destinations than considering all the ways marriage will change your relationship. In HITCHED: The Go-Girl Guide to the First Year of Marriage, Julia Bourland provides the ultimate insider's guide to the joys, hopes, challenges, conflicting emotions, and endless compromises of the year that follows the "I do"s. Drawing on dozens of interviews with newly married women, plus her own real-life experience, Bourland offers wise answers to crucial post-knot questions about sex, finances, friends, in-laws, and everything beyond, including: • What to do when your libido soars (yay!) or sinks (eek!) • How to keep important friendships -- and nourish new ones • The pros and cons of name changing • How to carve out personal space within marriage • The best ways to divide household responsibilities • How to start planning for your financial future Candid, witty, and wise, HITCHED will steer you through the ups and occasional downs of newlywed life and set you on the path to a loving, happy, and secure future together.


About the Author
Julia Bourland is the author of The Go-Girl Guide: Surviving Your 20s with Savvy, Soul, and Style. She is a former sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Women.com and has contributed to such national magazines as Bride's, Shape, and Parenting. She is happily hitched and lives in the San Francisco area with her husband.


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For this follow-up to The Go-Girl Guide, Bourland conducted telephone interviews with 60 "straight-talking women" who recently tied the knot. Most were college educated, liberal, and living in urban areas, and this book will appeal to a similar, if not identical, demographic. Bourland presents their "cumulative wisdom and experience [to help] shed light on life with a husband." To her credit, she takes a stand on issues; the result is mostly sound, healthy advice for women in the tone of an older sister or experienced girlfriend. Don't diet before the ceremony, she advises; it will just drain your energy. And don't hold off on sex before the wedding; it's a good stress outlet. However, some questionable advice also rears its head, e.g., put the honeymoon on a credit card if you don't have the cash because "some things in life are worth the interest." Infinitely more useful than Jenny Lee's recent I Do. I Did. Now What?; libraries should also consider Susan K. Perry's Loving in Flow: How the Happiest Couples Get and Stay That Way. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.


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