The Savvy Couples' Guide to Marrying After 35

"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility" (Tolstoy). Those of us who venture into matrimony later in life bring with us a particularly rich store of potential incompatibility. If nothing else, we've simply had more time to get stuck in our ways and habits of thinking. This book is a helpful series of reflections, from a married couple who's been there, on some of the unique challenges of blending two lives later in the game. The authors give us lots of practical and insightful advice, but the real value of the book is the intimate glimpses we're offered from the everyday lives of approximately 70 survey respondents: couples just like us, learning new routines for handling money, schedules, living spaces, multiple careers, blended families... A thoughtful wedding gift for the older couple who probably already has two of everything.