The Marriage Test: Our 40 Dates Before "I Do"
A crash course in commitment: one couple and forty dates that could make or break their marriage before the wedding. 
 
Picking a partner is life’s most important decision, but how are we supposed to make it? Being in love is a good start, but the issues that ultimately wreck marriages—money and monogamy, career and kids—are hard to gauge until you’re actually hitched. So after a few years of dating, Jill Andres and Brook Silva-Braga built The Marriage Test to confirm their compatibility before saying “I do.”
 
Forty revealing challenges simulate the issues that could tank or strengthen their union. For a month, they swap credit cards, for a weekend they borrow a baby. An embarrassing lunch with their exes tests their trust issues. Sexual gymnastics are required to recreate TV love scenes. From a night of speed dating to 24 hours handcuffed together, the crazy, awkward, emotional trials fling them headfirst into assorted marital minefields.
 
Is their love strong enough to weather real life? Only forty dates will tell...
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The Marriage Test: Our 40 Dates Before "I Do"
A crash course in commitment: one couple and forty dates that could make or break their marriage before the wedding. 
 
Picking a partner is life’s most important decision, but how are we supposed to make it? Being in love is a good start, but the issues that ultimately wreck marriages—money and monogamy, career and kids—are hard to gauge until you’re actually hitched. So after a few years of dating, Jill Andres and Brook Silva-Braga built The Marriage Test to confirm their compatibility before saying “I do.”
 
Forty revealing challenges simulate the issues that could tank or strengthen their union. For a month, they swap credit cards, for a weekend they borrow a baby. An embarrassing lunch with their exes tests their trust issues. Sexual gymnastics are required to recreate TV love scenes. From a night of speed dating to 24 hours handcuffed together, the crazy, awkward, emotional trials fling them headfirst into assorted marital minefields.
 
Is their love strong enough to weather real life? Only forty dates will tell...
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The Marriage Test: Our 40 Dates Before

The Marriage Test: Our 40 Dates Before "I Do"

The Marriage Test: Our 40 Dates Before

The Marriage Test: Our 40 Dates Before "I Do"

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Overview

A crash course in commitment: one couple and forty dates that could make or break their marriage before the wedding. 
 
Picking a partner is life’s most important decision, but how are we supposed to make it? Being in love is a good start, but the issues that ultimately wreck marriages—money and monogamy, career and kids—are hard to gauge until you’re actually hitched. So after a few years of dating, Jill Andres and Brook Silva-Braga built The Marriage Test to confirm their compatibility before saying “I do.”
 
Forty revealing challenges simulate the issues that could tank or strengthen their union. For a month, they swap credit cards, for a weekend they borrow a baby. An embarrassing lunch with their exes tests their trust issues. Sexual gymnastics are required to recreate TV love scenes. From a night of speed dating to 24 hours handcuffed together, the crazy, awkward, emotional trials fling them headfirst into assorted marital minefields.
 
Is their love strong enough to weather real life? Only forty dates will tell...

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780425282755
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/02/2016
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 1,045,325
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jill Andres is a business consultant who helps marketing and R&D teams create everything from cars and medicine to software and speaker systems.
 
Brook Silva-Braga is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work has aired on HBO, CBS, MTV, National Geographic, and CNBC.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Trust 1

Money 27

Kids 45

Sex 69

In-Laws, Etc. 89

Communication 115

Quality Time 141

Partnership 163

Marriage Prep 181

The Long Haul 201

Epilogue 219

Your Turn 223

Acknowledgments 239

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