Carol Weisman
Should you marry someone with very different values? Can a relationship survive deceit? Is love enough when one partner wants children and the other doesn’t? How do you recover after betrayal, divorce, or the death of the love of your life? What does it take to build a partnership that lasts?Love isn’t a fairy tale. It’s a series of choices. Some brilliant. Some spectacularly awful. Most of us make a few of each.In From the First Kiss to the Last Breath: A Woman’s Guide to Love and Marriage, Carol Weisman combines humor, practical wisdom, and honest insights to help women navigate every stage of love-from finding the right partner to building a lasting relationship, surviving heartbreak, caregiving, divorce, widowhood, and discovering that second (or even third) chances can be better than the first.Drawing on decades of observation, research, and real-life experience, Carol explores the issues that make-or-break relationships: money, sex, cleanliness, communication, trust, infidelity, online dating, blended families, caregiving, body image, religion, whether to have children, and what happens when life doesn’t follow the script you carefully wrote.With laugh-out-loud stories, poignant moments, practical strategies, and thought-provoking insights, Carol reminds readers that love is neither blind nor effortless, it is an action, a decision, and sometimes an act of remarkable courage.Whether you’re twenty-five or seventy-five, happily partnered, cautiously dating, recovering from loss, or wondering if love has passed you by, this book offers encouragement, wisdom, and plenty of laughter. Every chapter concludes with book club discussion questions, making it an ideal choice for book clubs, women’s groups, girlfriends’ weekends, and anyone who believes the best conversations about love begin after someone says, 'You have got to read this chapter.'Because love isn’t one-size-fits-all. It may mean a wonderful man, a faithful dog, a passport full of stamps, a cruise with friends, dinner for one without guilt, spoiling your grandchildren, taking ballroom dancing, learning to cook, volunteering, or finally putting yourself first. This is a choose-your-own-ending book. The questions matter far more than my answers.
