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But you seemed so happy : a marriage, in pieces and bits / Kimberly Harrington.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 282 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780063143005
  • 0063143003
  • 9780062993311
  • 0062993313
Other title:
  • Marriage, in pieces and bits
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Contents:
Preface: My little homewrecker -- Prologue: The honeymoon -- Me. Maiden ; Say thank you ; What to expect when you're expecting to be a Gen X girl ; Notes from family living class ; Teenage dirtbag ; These are the things I know about myself -- Marriage. A relationship history, in brief ; A portrait of the man and the moment ; Some questions for men in engagement photos ; Philosophical frogs ; Why did you get married? ; Life is better on weed ; Now that we've had a baby my terms and conditions have changed ; Everybody wants some ; How to fix your hedonic treadmill ; DIY marriage therapy ; Contempt, and other things familiarity breeds ; Funny story ; And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? -- "Divorce". Lightbulbs ; How to punch your kids in the face ; Hi, we're getting a divorce ; Thank you, acquaintance, for the very good advice on how to save my marriage ; Looking at strangers ; The unbelievably boring but true tale of divorce witch ; The anglerfish ; Things people say when you get divorced that they really should say when you get engaged ; Nuts and bolts ; Creating our grief ; When Sally divorced Harry -- Epilogue: Adult swim.
Summary: "In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life."--AmazonSummary: Six weeks after she and her husband announced their divorce, Kimberly Harrington began writing a book she thought would be about divorce, heavy on the dark humor. After all, she and her future ex had chosen to still live together in the same house with their kids as they slowly transitioned from being a married couple to single people (someday) living separately. Over the course of two years of what was supposed to be a temporary period of transition, Harrington sifted through her past--how she formed her ideas about relationships, sex, marriage, divorce--and dug back into the history of her marriage--how they met, what it felt like to be in love, how she and her husband had changed over time, the impact having children had on their relationship, and what they still owed one another.
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In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life.

Six weeks after Kimberly and her husband announced their divorce, she began work on a book that she thought would only be about divorce -- heavy on the dark humor with a light coating of anger and annoyance. After all, on the heels of planning to dissolve a twenty-year marriage they had chosen to still live together in the same house with their kids. Throw in a global pandemic and her idea of what the end of a marriage should look and feel like was flipped even further on its head.

This originally dark and caustic exploration turned into a more empathetic exercise, as she worked to understand what this relationship meant and why marriage matters so much. Over the course of two years of what was supposed to be a temporary period of transition, she sifted through her past--how she formed her ideas about relationships, sex, marriage, and divorce. And she dug back into the history of her marriage -- how she and her future ex-husband had met, what it felt like to be madly in love, how they had changed over time, the impact having children had on their relationship, and what they still owed one another.

But You Seemed So Happy is a time capsule of sorts. It's about getting older and repeatedly dying on the hill of being wiser, only to discover you were never all that dumb to begin with. It's an honest, intimate biography of a marriage, from its heady, idealistic, and easy beginnings to it slowly coming apart and finally to its evolution into something completely unexpected. As she probes what it means when everyone assumes you're happy as long as you're still married, Harrington skewers engagement photos, Gen X singularity, small-town busybodies, and the casual way we make life-altering decisions when we're young. Ultimately, this moving and funny memoir in essays is a vulnerable and irreverent act of forgiveness--of ourselves, our partners, and the relationships that have run their course but will always hold profound and permanent meaning in our lives.

"Essays"--Jacket.

Preface: My little homewrecker -- Prologue: The honeymoon -- Me. Maiden ; Say thank you ; What to expect when you're expecting to be a Gen X girl ; Notes from family living class ; Teenage dirtbag ; These are the things I know about myself -- Marriage. A relationship history, in brief ; A portrait of the man and the moment ; Some questions for men in engagement photos ; Philosophical frogs ; Why did you get married? ; Life is better on weed ; Now that we've had a baby my terms and conditions have changed ; Everybody wants some ; How to fix your hedonic treadmill ; DIY marriage therapy ; Contempt, and other things familiarity breeds ; Funny story ; And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? -- "Divorce". Lightbulbs ; How to punch your kids in the face ; Hi, we're getting a divorce ; Thank you, acquaintance, for the very good advice on how to save my marriage ; Looking at strangers ; The unbelievably boring but true tale of divorce witch ; The anglerfish ; Things people say when you get divorced that they really should say when you get engaged ; Nuts and bolts ; Creating our grief ; When Sally divorced Harry -- Epilogue: Adult swim.

"In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life."--Amazon

Six weeks after she and her husband announced their divorce, Kimberly Harrington began writing a book she thought would be about divorce, heavy on the dark humor. After all, she and her future ex had chosen to still live together in the same house with their kids as they slowly transitioned from being a married couple to single people (someday) living separately. Over the course of two years of what was supposed to be a temporary period of transition, Harrington sifted through her past--how she formed her ideas about relationships, sex, marriage, divorce--and dug back into the history of her marriage--how they met, what it felt like to be in love, how she and her husband had changed over time, the impact having children had on their relationship, and what they still owed one another.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278).

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