The Rules for Marriage

Ellen Fein, Sherrie Schneider

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9780007542888

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Rule 1 Relax during the Engagement and Wedding
• Rule 2 Continue to Be ‘a Creature Unlike Any Other’
• Rule 3 Keep Your Own Life
• Rule 4 Lower Your Expectations in the First Year
• Rule 5 Be a Team
• Rule 6 Accept that Some Things Are None of Your Business
• Rule 7 Let Him Win
• Rule 8 Be Supportive
• Rule 9 Don’t Ask Your Single Friends for Marital Advice
• Rule 10 Try Not to Call Him Too Much at Work
• Rule 11 Don’t Expect a Lot of Sympathy from Him
• Rule 12 Give Him 15 Minutes Alone When He Comes Home
• Rule 13 Don’t Use the ‘D’ Word
• Rule 14 Don’t Engage – and Other Rules for Rows
• Rule 15 Say What You Mean, in the Nicest Possible Way
• Rule 16 To Compare Is to Despair – Don’t Compare Him to Other Husbands
• Rule 17 Have a Family Dinner at Least Once a Week
• Rule 18 Have a ‘Date’ Night
• Rule 19 Don’t Force Him to ‘Talk’
• Rule 20 Don’t Hang on His Every Word
• Rule 21 Do Things You Don’t Want to Do
• Rule 22 Rarely Return His Gifts
• Rule 23 He Can Say Anything about His Family – But You Can’t
• Rule 24 Don’t Try to Do It All
• Rule 25 Rules for Sex
• Rule 26 Rules for Pregnancy
• Rule 27 Listen to His Advice and Try to Appreciate It
• Rule 28 Make Him Feel Like the Most Important Person in Your Life
• Rule 29 Don’t Nag
• Rule 30 Don’t Complain about the Kids
• Rule 31 Keep It to Yourself
• Rule 32 Don’t Expect Applause for Doing Chores
• Rule 33 Don’t Shout
• Rule 34 Don’t Find Fault with Things You Knew about When You Married Him
• Rule 35 It’s Easier to Stay Married than Get Married
• Rule 36 Don’t Be Surprised If Your Husband Lies
• Rule 37 Don’t Go Changing or Trying Too Hard
• Rule 38 Realize that Your Marriage Is Over If He Cheats Even Once
• Rule 39 Don’t Think Marriage Guidance Is the Answer
• Rule 40 Divorce with Dignity
• Rule 41 Date Again as Soon as Poss
• Listen to What Men Say
• Rules for Second Marriages
• More Rules from Happily Married Women
• Final Thoughts from a Rules Facilitator
• Fifteen Extra Hints
• Also by the Author
• Copyright
• About the Publisher