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You complete me -- Marriage will change him -- If he would be perfect, I would be happy -- Let's make a deal: the barter economy marriage -- We'll be happy when we get there -- Children will bring us closer together -- Love will keep us together -- I married the perfect person -- She knows me better than I know myself -- We can go back to the way we were

The author shares her experience as a counselor working with couples in marriage counseling to illustrate the falsehoods in common marriage myths, along with her own perspectives on the marriage relationship and advice on working through various relationship issues