title: Guide for the Romantically Perplexed
author:  Lisa Aiken 
description: Billed as "the first practical, comprehensive guide that integrates research, professional marriage counseling techniques and Jewish wisdom," this book uses ancient Jewish teachings about marriage as a starting point for finding--and keeping--a mate. Aiken, a psychologist who lives in Jerusalem, opens the book with yenta-like tips on "who to be and what to look for" when searching for one's "b'shert" (intended). She then offers advice on all the details of planning a wedding, even giving suggestions on how to keep kosher in an exotic honeymoon location. But Aiken's sensible and businesslike advice does not come to an end under the marriage canopy; she is deeply concerned about divorce statistics, so the second half of the book discusses marital communication, problem-solving and the two potentially explosive issues of money and sex. Her brief chapter on how children change a marriage seems almost like an afterthought, but in all, this is a sweeping guide that lives up to its own promises. <BR>Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: AWAY FROM HERE
  
  CHRISTOPHER HARLAN
  
  Contents
  Foreword
  Synopsis
  Prologue
  Note
  Quotes
  Part I
  Two Flowers
  1.
  Where I tell you all about that beautiful Peruvian goddess who rescued my soul.
  Interlude
  2.
  Where I realize that even when thrown by my best friend with the noblest of intentions, a french fry in the face is
  still really annoying.
  Interlude
  3.
  Where I encounter two potential serial killers, nearly freeze to death while sitting on some rocks, and learn the
  complexities of the word potato.
  4.
  Where I tell you some sad stuff about the night It happened.
  5.
  Where I watch a film of us in my head.
  6.
  Where I learn that food and Annalise just didn’t get along, and where she struggles to pronounce types of steak
  correctly.
  Part II
  Quotes
  Interlude
  7.
  Where I learn that love can’t be accurately ranked on a scale of 1-10.
  8.
  Where I ask Anna to accompany me to nerd Heaven.
  9.
  Where two nerds escort their girlfriends to nerd Heaven.
  Interlude
  10. Where I tell you about our fights, both real 