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The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook
Steve Doocy
Everything I Know About Love and Marriage (with corrections by Mrs. Doocy)
William Morrow
October 2006
On Sale: October 17, 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0060854057
EAN: 9780060854058
Hardcover
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Ever since Eve asked Adam, "Do I look fat in this fig
leaf?" it has been apparent that husbands don't know how to
relate to their wives. Men believe they understand women and
vice versa, but really men know as much about women as a
cocker spaniel knows about assembling a Weber grill. Welcome to The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook, Steve Doocy's
laugh-out-loud perspective on love, marriage, and family.
The book can be used for its hilarious husband and wife
wisdom or, if things aren't going well, as a projectile to
get somebody's attention. This is not an advice book. It is
a DON'T EVEN THINK OF TRYING THIS book. The author, his
family, and his collection of friends (some very famous in
the worlds of entertainment, business, and politics) have
already discreetly made almost every conceivable marriage
mistake, and it is their hope that this irrev- erent manual
can save you the trouble of being an idiot on your own. Doocy, co-host of Fox & Friends, who has been married for
twenty consecutive years, provides real slice-of-life
stories on everything from early marriage ("I love you,
you're perfect, now wear this thong") and pregnancy ("You're
eating for two? Who— you and Shaquille O'Neal?") to sending
your child to college ("Is that a funnel?") and retirement
(high-fiber appetizers on Viagra dates). Most of the stories
conclude with "corrections" and additional wise words from
Doocy's real-life wife, Kathy, who, after two decades of
picking up Steve's socks in the garage, has developed a zany
sense of humor herself. There is also a handy troubleshooting section for when
things go haywire, like during the eye- opening experiment
undertaken especially for this book, wherein the author
wanted to prove to his wife that they were perfect for each
other, so he had them join an on-line dating service. Out of
a database of several hundred thousand guys, he was not in
her top 532 local men. Despite the fact that their one-
month experiment ended a year ago, she's still getting
photographs of single men whose head shots appear to have
been taken at a recent skinhead convention. Luckily for him,
she still prefers "bonehead to skinhead." This book is a celebration of the pageantry that is wedlock,
which starts with an "I do" and sometimes ends with a boiled
rabbit. Let's face it, marriage isn't always as smooth as a
forty-year-old's forehead after six months of Botox. In
fact, marriage is ridiculously hard, but laughing about it
is now incredibly easy with The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook.
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