Introduction: "Do you know why you're here?" -- Toast 1: paying for each other's mistakes -- Toast 2: the boring parts -- Toast 3: containing multitudes -- Toast 4: the truth about soul mates -- Toast 5: fighting in rental cars -- Toast 6: other people, other cities -- Toast 7: "love is strong as death" -- Epilogue: one toast I would actually give

"Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which 'the first twenty years are the hardest'"--Amazon.com