Operating a marriage

Author: Mark Meier
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Mark Meier's book is very interesting; it's a portrayal that helps one understand how humor and mischief play a role in keeping a marriage running smoothly. —Molly Dubin (Writer, Journalist)
Since Adam and Eve were banished from Eden, we have been analyzing love and marriage. To test the laws of marriage, Mark has collected many proverbs, cartoons, and finely honed humor in this book. Of course, he has also skillfully woven in his own life lessons. —Susan White Burton (Writer)
What can I say? Mark Meier's Running a Marriage is full of imagination, insight, and persuasion, and also very humorous—of course, far more than that. These 50 chapters of excerpts can help you live together, love each other, and laugh together. —Richard Sand (Diplomat)
Some people's marriages last an incredibly long time, thanks to a divorce lawsuit that served as its tragic end. For such individuals, this book is undoubtedly a sharp yet amusing reminder: everything could have been so wonderful. —Joe Stein (Editor)
Why is "starting a family" and "building a career" always combined into the idiom "starting a family and building a career," making it seem as if only after marriage will life become peaceful and harmonious. But that's not the case. A shared life is made up of a series of experiments where both parties adapt to each other. Running a Marriage is exactly such a book: a couple who have been married for over 50 years, using 50 chapters full of insight to reflect on their marriage experiences—full of exploration, experimentation, screaming, pouting, nagging, appeasing, sulking, blaming, and other neurotic behaviors—but it is precisely these petty tricks that have allowed them to sail through the turbulent sea of marriage for decades.