Sentences with phrase «marriage for skeptics»

In The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (Seal Press, Sept. 28, 2014), therapist Susan Pease Gadoua and journalist Vicki Larson take a groundbreaking look at the modern shape of marriage to help readers open their minds to marrying more consciously and creatively.

Perhaps that should have shaken me, but it didn't — they're exactly the kind of couple Susan Pease Gadoua and I are writing The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels for.

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As Susan Pease Gadoua and I suggest in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, if we continue to raise kids in a love - based marital model, we will continue to see the same results.

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Susan Pease Gadoua, Vicki Larson, The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (2014)

While researching for our book, The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, Susan Pease Gadoua and I heard from numerous couples who opened up their marriage for awhile.

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So begins chapter one of therapist Susan Pease Gadoua and journalist Vicki Larson's new book The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, which challenges readers to consider alternate marital agreements in a world where lovers live together without tying the knot, more couples are having children out of wedlock and about half of all marriages end in divorce.

She has what The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels would call a parenting marriage (although they're not technically married); Bello is connected to Dan because they are parents to Jackson, now 14, and that will never change — parenthood connects couples forever, whether they are married or not.

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You may also want to check out the just - released book entitled, The New I Do, Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (Seal Press, 2014).

Vicki Larson is an award - winning journalist, blogger and co-author The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (Seal Press, September 2014.)

Adapted excerpt from The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels by Susan Pease Gadoua and Vicki Larson, with permission from Seal Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group.

Vicki Larson is an award - winning journalist and coauthor of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

Those are the two types of time - limited marital contracts suggested in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (Seal Press, 2014).

This is what Susan Pease Gadoua and I call a Companionship Marriage in our book, The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

Vicki Larson is a journalist and co-author of «The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.»

That's what marriage has become, as my co-author and I detail in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, and what Eli J. Finkel addresses in his just - released book, The All - Or - Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work.

But, as Susan Pease Gadoua and I detail in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, couples can choose a LAT arrangement from the start of their marriage.

is an award - winning journalist and co-author of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (2014).

She is the co-author of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (Seal Press), and the proud mother of two young men.

It's a topic Susan Pease Gadoua and I bring up in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

Susan Pease Gadoua is the co-author of, The New I Do, Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (Seal Press, 2014).

Vicki Larson is a longtime journalist, blogger and co-author of «The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.»

Of course she can, which is the message behind The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

Award - winning journalist, coauthor of «The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels» (Seal Press), blogger at OMG Chronicles, mom

With that background, it's easy to understand why some men might be hesitant to tie the knot in the kind of one - size - fits - all traditional marriage model we've been practicing, which is yet another reason why the marital models in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels will help brides - and grroms - to - be — and, in this case, especially the grooms — get the marriage they want without vague vows of «until death do us part.»

In researching LATs / apartners for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels — which offers a living apart together model as one of many marital options couples can chose from to individualize their marriage — Vicki discovered that LATs / apartners feel more committed and less trapped than live - in couples.

It's a «safety marriage,» says Vicki Larson, who along with her co-author Susan Pease Gadoua wrote the recent book The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

We love the term beta marriage and wish we had used it in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels instead of using the name that caused a similar kerfuffle a decade or so ago, a starter marriage.

Vicki Larson is a journalist, columnist and co-author of the book The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

I've also, finally, added a page for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, which you can — yay!

And they are not merely «trying marriage on» either, which doesn't work anyway, as Susan Pease Gadoua and I detail in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels; cohabitation is viewed as second - tier to the «real thing» so you can't live together and experience what being married is like.

Not only do Susan Pease Gadoua and I talk about the reality of assumed monogamy in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, but many others, like columnist and author Dan Savage, have questioned why sexual fidelity should trump stability.

In the work we're doing for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, Susan Pease Gadoua and I ask soon - to - be-married couples to check off all the reasons why they're getting married.

Maybe; their paper cites studies that indicate «unrealistic expectations» and «inadequate preparation» for marriage are keeping many couples from having an «our» marriage (and these are just the sorts of things Susan Pease Gadoua and I are discussing in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

No one exemplifies the benefits of a renewable marital contract better than Married with Luggage bloggers and authors Betsy and Warren Talbot, whom we interviewed for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

It's what Susan Pease Gadoua, my co-author of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, was constantly asked until she — finally!!!! — wed at age 43.

That, of course, is the premise of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, but when I read Doll's essay, I realize that the same consciousness that we promote in the book in deciding whether to marry or not, and how to have the right marriage, can be applied to deciding just about anything.

In some ways, single parents are poised to raise kids exactly right — they're able to get their emotional and sexual needs met outside of a romantic love - based co-parenting situation, and often outside of a cohabiting situation, while also focusing on caring for their kids (not unlike the parenting marriage we propose in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels).

That's why I'm incredibly proud that The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels is not an advice book.

Still, the last chapter of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels addresses a modern - day reality: why does the government give perks and protections to people based on their love life?

That's why we promote discussions about monogamy in «The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.»

In researching LATs / apartners for The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels — which offers a living apart together model as one of many marital options couples can chose from to individualize their marriage — I discovered that LATs / apartners feel more committed and less trapped than live - in couples.

In addition to co-authoring The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, I have an essay in Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God: 73 Women on Life's Transitions, which you can buy here, and in Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s, which you can buy here (all proceeds go toward the Breast Cancer Fund).

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Organizing lives according to desire rather than convention is exactly why Susan Pease Gadoua and I are writing The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (which has a publisher, Seal Press, and is set for a fall 2014 publication date — yay!)

Of course, most of us believe we can do it better (and I believe people can; that's why Susan Pease Gadoua and I are writing The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels).

That's why The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels suggests that you try something different rather than work harder on a marriage, which is what «experts» often recommend.