What No One Tells the Bride: Surviving the Wedding, Sex after the Honeymoon by Marg Stark

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You have the ring of your dreams, you walked down the aisle in a cloud of bliss, you were given a complete set of china, including the gravy boat, from your gift registry. Now what? This book provides the inside story of what it is like to be a newlywed. Author Marg Stark, recently married herself, shares the stories of 50 newly married women and relates their funny tales about the good and bad sides of married life.

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Written by a recent bride, this book dispels the fairy-tale ideals and calms the fears of a new generation of brides--women who treasure their independence and are more accustomed to single life than those of previous eras.

Library Journal

Stark (Timeless Healing) has written a readable self-help guide for brides-to-be and newlyweds who are trying to adjust to this often anxiety-ridden passage in life and to solve the consequent identity crisis. Chapters touch on wedding postpartum, handling money squabbles, falling prey to stereotypes, timing pregnancies, and communication and criticism in a marriage. The text is interspersed with comments from the 50 (mostly white, middle-class) women whom Stark surveyed and interviewed. The result is a "feel good" book whose aim is to reassure newlyweds that their fears and anxieties are normal. Much of it reads like a woman's magazine article, offering somewhat simplistic advice: "breathe deeply, and believe that your venture into love will succeed." But Stark does have a clear, readable style and a reassuring sincerity in drawing from her own life as well as others. A bibliography of about 14 books (mostly other self-help books) follows the text. -- Ann Babits Grice, East Brunswick Public Library, New Jersey

Library Journal

Stark (Timeless Healing) has written a readable self-help guide for brides-to-be and newlyweds who are trying to adjust to this often anxiety-ridden passage in life and to solve the consequent identity crisis. Chapters touch on wedding postpartum, handling money squabbles, falling prey to stereotypes, timing pregnancies, and communication and criticism in a marriage. The text is interspersed with comments from the 50 (mostly white, middle-class) women whom Stark surveyed and interviewed. The result is a "feel good" book whose aim is to reassure newlyweds that their fears and anxieties are normal. Much of it reads like a woman's magazine article, offering somewhat simplistic advice: "breathe deeply, and believe that your venture into love will succeed." But Stark does have a clear, readable style and a reassuring sincerity in drawing from her own life as well as others. A bibliography of about 14 books (mostly other self-help books) follows the text. -- Ann Babits Grice, East Brunswick Public Library, New Jersey

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