Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give
Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun, published by National Geographic Books on June 5, 2018, is a reprint edition consisting of 192 pages in English. This collection of seven essays delves into the complexities of marriage, moving beyond the clichés of eternal bliss and harmony to explore the realities of long-term relationships. Calhoun presents a candid and affectionate examination of her own marriage, addressing the challenges and imperfections that often accompany the commitment to stay together.
Readers will find a nuanced discussion of themes such as infidelity, existential anxiety, and the various hurdles that couples face. Calhoun’s personal essays invite reflection on the nature of marriage, portraying it as both a burden and a gift. This work encourages a deeper understanding of what it means to maintain a partnership over time, highlighting that the journey of marriage is not merely a fairy tale but a complex, ongoing endeavor.
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Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage.
We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clichés around marriage—eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates—leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes, you might miss being single.
In Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which “the first twenty years are the hardest.”
Calhoun’s funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. “What a burden,” Calhoun calls marriage, “and what a gift.”
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