Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together

A pocket guide for staying together that offers the latest scientific data, personal anecdotes, and advice, and makes the case that staying married may be the best thing for your health, your finances, and your chance at happiness, by an award-winning Time magazine journalist.

Surveying the latest science and folding it into her very funny, engaging, and candid knack for storytelling, Belinda Luscombe has written a fresh and persuasive report on the state of our unions. The six chapters in the book examine the six major faultines that can fracture a marriage, Luscombe's F-words: familiarity, fighting, family, finances, fooling around, and finding help. She presents facts, debunks myths, provides an entertaining mix of data, anecdotes, and wisdome from a wide range of approaches to married life, as well as experts and therapists of the wedding/marriage/divorce industries. The idea is to give the reader something to think about and maybe try, whether the marriage in question is on the brink of collapse or just needs a bit of maintenance on the foundations.