Summary of Jo Piazza's How to Be Married

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#1 I was trying to be humane, by creating a different awful situation, by telling my new husband to divorce me. I didn’t want to ruin his life.

#2 The wedding is often the most important thing in a woman’s life, eclipsing all of her accomplishments. And while we’ve made great strides in America to not be obsessed with weddings, we’re still a society that loves them.

#3 I had been dating the wrong men for 34 years when I met my prince on a sightseeing boat in the Galápagos Islands. I was working as the managing editor for Yahoo!’s travel Web site. Nick also worked in journalism, the serious business kind that sent him to the Galápagos to write about the stability of Ecuador’s tourism plans. I was there to write about how to take wonderful selfies with baby sea lions.

#4 I was engaged to Nick just three months after we met. I was terrified to leave New York, my home of thirteen years, for San Francisco to live with Nick before our wedding.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822519930

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was trying to be humane, by creating a different awful situation, by telling my new husband to divorce me. I didn’t want to ruin his life.

#2

The wedding is often the most important thing in a woman’s life, eclipsing all of her accomplishments. And while we’ve made great strides in America to not be obsessed with weddings, we’re still a society that loves them.

#3

I had been dating the wrong men for 34 years when I met my prince on a sightseeing boat in the Galápagos Islands. I was working as the managing editor for Yahoo!’s travel Web site. Nick also worked in journalism, the serious business kind that sent him to the Galápagos to write about the stability of Ecuador’s tourism plans. I was there to write about how to take wonderful selfies with baby sea lions.

#4

I was engaged to Nick just three months after we met. I was terrified to leave New York, my home of thirteen years, for San Francisco to live with Nick before our wedding.

#5

I was the first woman in my family who didn’t feel like she had to get married. I talked about this evolution of marriage with the academic and author Stephanie Coontz.

#6

Marriage is no longer about advancing your parents’ interests or linking a dependent woman to a dominant man. Today, both women and men want to marry someone with similar ideals, talents, aspirations, and qualities. However, that comes with its own set of problems.

#7

I made a list of the answers I was given about how to be married,