Marry Him

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, from the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.

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.