Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

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. You have a fulfilling job, great friends, and the perfect apartment. So what if you havent found The One just yet. Hell come along someday, right? But what if he doesnt? Or what if Mr. Right had been, well, Mr. Right in Front of Youbut 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 were dating? Are we too picky about trivial things that dont matter, and not picky enough about the often overlooked things that do? In Marry Him, Gottlieb explores an all-too-common dilemmahow 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 economistsas well as single and married men and women of all generations.