Seeking Happily Ever After: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Being Single Without LosingYour Mind(and Finding Lasting Love Along the Way) [Paperback]

Michelle Cove (Author)

Book Description

Release date: September 23, 2010

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The ultimate antidote to negative dating guides, this practical, positive book helps single women figure out and achieve their personal goals for their romantic futures.

Singleness is no longer a quick blip on the radar of our lives; for more and more of us, singleness is a bona fide life stage, with its own joys and challenges. Positive and uplifting, Seeking Happily Ever After is the first true road map to that life stage for women- a guide to navigating the ups and downs and developing a plan for understanding and achieving your own romantic goals.

Seeking Happily Ever After offers individualized advice for twelve different "types" of single women-from women who've spent their whole life dreaming of a perfect wedding to those who have always assumed they would marry young but are now unsure-and many more. Filled with exercises and "action items" to help the reader clarify her thinking, Seeking Happily Ever After covers topics both large and small in a single woman's life, including:

-How to cut through the noise of media, family, and friends and understand what kind of relationship and partner you truly want.

-How to not put off starting your "real life" until you couple up.

-How to keep from beating yourself up about not having reached your romantic goals.

"Happily ever after" means something different to everyone, and this book gives any woman the tools to understand and achieve her own vision of the good life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Finally, a book that single women can relate to! Too often, self-help books operate on fear-mongering--aiming to convince women that they have some major defect preventing them from finding Mr. Right... Michelle Cove starts with the assumption that single women are just fine as they are and then provides warm, friendly and wise advice to help women be their happiest self no matter what stage of being single they are in."
--Courtney E. Martin, editor at Feministing and author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women

About the Author

Michelle Cove is the co-author of the national bestselling self-help book I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!: A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict. The book was featured on several national talk shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Today Show. Cove was also a founding editor of Girls’ Life Magazine. She lives with her husband and daughter in Boston, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Tarcher; Original edition (September 23, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585428310
• ISBN-13: 978-1585428311
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #828,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michelle is the author of three self-help books for women: I Love Mondays: And other confessions from devoted working moms (November 1st, 2012, Seal Press); I'm Not Mad, I just Hate You! (Viking, 1999), and Seeking Happily Ever After: How to navigate the ups and downs of being single without losing your mind (Tarcher/Penguin, 2010). She is also a filmmaker, who directed/produced the award-winning documentary Seeking Happily Ever After (Lionsgate), and is in production on One and Only. Michelle is the editor of 614: the HBI ezine for Jewish women, and offers talks and workshops to empower girls and women. Visit www.michellecove.com to learn more.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing and reaffirming! October 5, 2010

By lisa frattini

Format:Paperback

So refreshing to find a book that doesn't try to stuff all singles into one neat little package. The chapter called "The Slow and Steady" really resonated with me. I live with my boyfriend of 5+ years. We are together for the long haul and will likely get married at some point, just not in the near future. The chapter reaffirmed my belief that he and I are in a place that works for us and ultimately, that's all that matters. I've seen many young women feel enormous pressure to get engaged or married after being in a relationship for x number of years, as if there's some sort of overarching formula to compute when the 'right time' is. Cove speaks to this and clearly gets that there's no one `happily ever after' for everyone. I definitely recommend this book for any single woman who is looking for ways to feel good, or even better, about her life.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT READ!!! October 5, 2010

By S blue

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Finally a book that lets you feel proud about being single! This book makes you feel like you are not alone in the life of a single woman and that it's okay to be single. Singlehood is an actual stage of life to be embraced and not something that anyone should be embarrassed by. I especially liked the chapter which included "the mom talk". This book is great and I recommend it to any single woman out there!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Not in your 30"s?? It will still Resonate with You!! October 6, 2010

By Judith Chasin

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This was a really fun read. Michelle Cove has a great way with expressing what so many of us think. And this book is not just for single, 30 something women. I have recommended it to a cousin who has been after her 30 something son to find a girl, and I think she will get good advice from this book. It is the way that Ms. Cove has organized the book that really works. Not only does it present the issues, but gives down to earth solutions and suggestions for the single person and for her/his friends and family. I'm actually a mother of three grown children and have been single for many years . There is plenty for me to take in as well. And, I can't wait to see the documentary that precipitated the writing of this book!!