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Stick Figure
— published 1998 — 9 editions |
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Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
— published 2010 — 10 editions |
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I Love You, Nice to Meet You: A Guy and a Girl Give the Lowdown on Coupling Up
by Lori Gottlieb, Kevin Bleyer — published 2006 — 3 editions |
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Pele e Osso
by Lori Gottlieb, Luís Manuel Dionísio — published 2001 |
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Inside The Cult Of Kibu: And Other Tales Of The Millennial Gold Rush
by Lori Gottlieb, Jesse Jacobs — published 2002 — 3 editions |
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Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology
by Donna Jarrell , Sarah Fenske , Lori Gottlieb — published 2005 — 3 editions |
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“When I look at my friend's marriages, with their routine day-to-dayness, they actually seem far more romantic than any dating relationship might be. Dating seems romantic, but for the most part it's an extended audition. Marriage seems boring, but for the most part it's a state of comfort and acceptance. Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long-term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime. It's quietly romantic. He makes her tea. She goes to the doctor appointment with him. They listen to each other's daily trivia. They put up with each other's quirks. They're there for each other.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
― Lori Gottlieb, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
“What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
― Lori Gottlieb, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
“I thought I should call a matchmaker.
For me, this seemed like a radical step. It never occurred to me to hire a matchmaker when I was younger because I always believed I'd meet a man on my own. He'd be sitting next to me on an airplane, waiting in line behind me at the dry cleaner, working in the same office attending the same party, hanging out at the same coffeehouse.
It seemed ridiculous now, when I thought about the odds of this happening. After all, we don't subject other important aspects of out lives to pure chance. When you want to get a job you don't just hang out in the lobbies of office buildings, hoping an employer will strike up a conversation with you. When you want to buy a house, you don't walk aimlessly from neighborhood to neighborhood on your own, hoping to spot a house that happens to be for sale, matches your personal taste and contains the appropriate number of bedrooms and bathrooms. That's too random. If that's your only method of house hunting, you might end up homeless. So you hire a real estate broker to show you the potential homes that meet your needs. By the same token, why not hire a matchmaker to show you potential partners?”
― Lori Gottlieb, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
For me, this seemed like a radical step. It never occurred to me to hire a matchmaker when I was younger because I always believed I'd meet a man on my own. He'd be sitting next to me on an airplane, waiting in line behind me at the dry cleaner, working in the same office attending the same party, hanging out at the same coffeehouse.
It seemed ridiculous now, when I thought about the odds of this happening. After all, we don't subject other important aspects of out lives to pure chance. When you want to get a job you don't just hang out in the lobbies of office buildings, hoping an employer will strike up a conversation with you. When you want to buy a house, you don't walk aimlessly from neighborhood to neighborhood on your own, hoping to spot a house that happens to be for sale, matches your personal taste and contains the appropriate number of bedrooms and bathrooms. That's too random. If that's your only method of house hunting, you might end up homeless. So you hire a real estate broker to show you the potential homes that meet your needs. By the same token, why not hire a matchmaker to show you potential partners?”
― Lori Gottlieb, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
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