Bits o' Blair

Have you ever wanted to kill your husband?

I mean, really.  You’d love for him to drop over & then you could start fresh & paint your closet pink & meet a dashing rich man that would take you off to far away places, like that cool town in Greece with the white buildings.

Thankfully, I haven’t.  But I know plenty of friends that have & it always breaks my heart to hear it.  Because marriage?  It’s tough.  It takes work.

BUT IT IS WORTH IT.

& that’s pretty much the point of Alisa Bowman’s book, Project: Happily Ever After.  She essentially wants her husband to keel over dead to the point that she planned a rather lovely funeral for him, albeit in her head.  Toss in Postpartum Depression (oh, how I am familiar with that!) & financial issues (aren’t we all familiar with those?) & you have a clusterhell of a marriage.  But instead of ordering a casket or calling an attorney, she decided to give it one more go.  She through everything she had into their marriage.  & she found it was worth it.

I think the sun rises & sets with Nate.  Truly.  Just the other day, I was bragging to coworkers that somehow, I convinced that man to marry me & truly, I jumped up & down with joy on the alter before he kissed me as his bride.  BOOM.  I caught that sucker for the rest of his life.

But.  BUT.  Reading this book was a good reaffirmation for me that marriages can be saved.  Not all of them.  (Certainly not if abuse is involved.)  But there is hope.  Because we all deserve that fairy tale ending.

required:  Alisa sent me a copy of her book at no charge to me before it was available to the public.  I loved it mostly because she drops the F-bomb a couple of times & I have extreme affection for the appropriateness of that word in certain scenarios.  She is a lovely, lovely lady correspond with & I sincerely enjoyed reading her journey.