Questions To Ask Before Marrying
According to an often-referenced New York Times article, here are fifteen questions you should ask yourself and The One before marrying. About children (how many… who will be primary caretaker?), finances (spender…saver?), sex (how often…you're not secretly gay are you?), in-laws (get the rules in writing!), and even if there should be a television in the bedroom. But the most important question, the one that had me second-guessing my near instantaneous acceptance of Tom's marriage proposal, was the last. Number fifteen. About the strength of the relationship and whether it would withstand challenges.
Such as my twin sister, Stella. "This is an intervention," Stella said, stretching her skinny arms across my bedroom doorway to block my escape into the living room, where my engagement party was in full swing. "From a marriage that will bore you to death before your first anniversary."
She wasn't laughing. Shouldn't there be a laugh after a comment like that? A just kidding?
"Run for your life, Ruby," she whispered. "You don't want to die before your thirtieth birthday, do you?" She added the trademark head tilt she'd af ... read full excerpt from: Questions to Ask Before Marrying ebook
