You can have a happy marriage, but it doesn't "just happen." Learn how to create your very own version of happily ever after! Here is professional advice, but professional advice from one who has lived the best and the worst of marital events: a loving marriage, the death of a beloved husband, refusal to give in to sorrow or anger, and the resolve to start again. Marital advice? Michelle Vasquez knows whereof she speaks. Her advice to you is direct, understandable, and do-able. She will challenge some of your ideas (and some common wisdom as well: "Constructive criticism," she says, "is an oxymoron.") but the challenges are well-reasoned, bringing logic to what may sometimes be irrational beliefs carried over from your childhood into your marriage. Under 81 topics and with plenty of affirmations and practicable "action steps," Michelle Vasquez addresses the good, the bad, and the workable in marriage. This is a book for the newlywed, the newly bereaved, the sometimes annoyed and occasionally discouraged-even the never-married looking for "the one."