How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

Contributor(s): Dunn, Jancee (Author)
ISBN: 0316267090 EAN: 9780316267090
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
US SRP: $16.99 US
Binding: Paperback: 288 pages
Pub Date: March 27, 2018

Annotation: A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice.

"Get this for your pregnant friends, or yourself." --People

Recommended by Nicole Cliffe in Slate
Featured in People Picks

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How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers often have for their mates. After Jancee Dunn had her baby, she found that she was doing virtually all the household chores, even though she and her husband worked equal hours.

She asked herself: How did I become the 'expert' at changing a diaper?

Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage - and the way their marriage will affect their child.

Enter Dunn, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband, their daughter, and her boisterous extended family, who show us the ways in which outmoded family patterns and traditions thwart the overworked, overloaded parents of today.

On the brink of marital Armageddon, Dunn plunges into the latest relationship research, solicits the counsel of the country's most renowned couples' and sex therapists, canvasses fellow parents, and even consults an FBI hostage negotiator on how to effectively contain an "explosive situation.

Instead of having the same fights over and over, Dunn and her husband must figure out a way to resolve their larger issues and fix their family while there is still time.

As they discover, adding a demanding new person to your relationship means you have to reevaluate--and rebuild your marriage. In an exhilarating twist, they work together to save the day, happily returning to the kind of peaceful life they previously thought was the sole province of couples without children.

Part memoir, part self-help book with actionable and achievable advice,

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BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Conflict Resolution
- Family & Relationships | Anger (see also Self-Help | Self Management - Anger Management)
- Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships
- Humor | Topic | Men, Women & Relationships
- Self-Help | Self-Management | Anger Management (see also Family & Relationships - Anger
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Fatherhood
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Motherhood
- Self-Help | Communication & Social Skills