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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.
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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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- PublisherAtria Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0743444108
- ISBN 13 9780743444101
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. 1. Product Description If youre like most brides youve spent more time pondering wedding favors and exotic honeymoon destinations than considering all the ways marriage will change your relationship In HITCHED The GoGirl Guide to the First Year of Marriage Julia Bourland provides the ultimate insiders guide to the joys hopes challenges conflicting emotions and endless compromises of the year that follows the I dos Drawing on dozens of interviews with newly married women plus her own reallife experience Bourland offers wise answers to crucial postknot questions about sex finances friends inlaws 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 GoGirl Guide Surviving Your 20s with Savvy Soul and Style She is a former sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Womencom and has contributed to such national magazines as Brides Shape and Parenting She is happily hitched and lives in the San Francisco area with her husband Excerpt Reprinted by permission All rights reserved Chapter One Mentally engagedThe marriage initiation begins with an engagement And an engagement regardless of whether the proposal was overthetop romantic spontaneous which is also romantic or heavily anticipated typically conjures up a hurricane of emotions enough to make a girl downright weepy when giving her best friend the blowbyblow playback of the proposal or downright bitchy when she finds out that the reception site she really wants is booked until 2010 Discussions with your mate about various wedding details will keep this hurricane of emotions active but hopefully not too destructive throughout your engagementPlanning a wedding tends to bring out a couples feelings about everything money religion family tradition Its one life event that touches on every macro issue out there Even if you consider yourself a lowkey kind of gal you may be surprised at the degree of passion you feel about every little detail that goes into your wedding I certainly was But what might be helpful to note is that this whirl of emotions is a normal mental state typical of many women about to enter the unknown alternative lifestyle of marriage What follows is a list containing some of the feelings you might have during those engagement months when you and your mate realize that your lives are about to change foreverdazed and confusedOne of the first sensations many women feel after getting engaged is dazed Lori 34 of San Francisco California felt this spacedout phenomenon immediately after her boyfriend popped the question also on a hike overlooking the Pacific Ocean a popular engagement spot here in northern CaliforniaThey had bushwhacked to a secluded area Hopping around and nervously fussing over everything they had brought from the picnic to the binoculars Lori had a gut feeling that the proposal was moments away she had actually felt the outline of an engagement ring in her boyfriends pocket on the way up the hill and all her emotions were on the verge of eruptionWhen her boyfriend took her hands and asked her to be his wife she was instantaneously propelled into a daze The emotional intensity was too much she says and she totally shut down The best she could manage to utter in response was Yeah okay Of course it wasnt long before shock turned to giddiness thanks in part to the champagne her boyfriend had brought along to celebra. Seller Inventory # DADAX0743444108
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