Ten years is about the right amount of time to wait for a moment like this. You wouldn’t want it to happen much sooner (it’d spoil the fun of waiting) or much later (when you’re disillusioned).
That’s about how long it’s been since I started writing books and publishing them on Amazon on my own and now, the time has come: Next Chapter has published my first traditionally published work–and I think they probably got my best one. It’s Fights You’ll Have After Having a Baby: A Self-Help Story.
Please buy it for yourself, and for a few married parents you know. (It’s not expensive.)
Here’s the description:
After Rachel and Matthew had their first child, they had a couple of fights. Well, okay, more than a couple—they fought for over three years. They fought about schedules. They fought about bad habits. They fought about feeling unloved.
They even fought about the lawn mower.
And besides actually having their child, it was the best thing that could’ve happened.
Chronicling their greatest hits, from the Great Birth Control Debate to the Divorce Joke Showdown, Fights You’ll Have After Having a Baby is a post-partem story with hope. It offers true stories from the field, nitty-gritty advice and, most important, a nuanced understanding of what it takes to be married with children.
Get the Amazon ebook version here. And definitely help a writer out by posting a review as well. Thanks so much.
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Babies come. But babies don't go. Get Fights You’ll Have After Having a Baby: A Self-Help Story on Amazon now.
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Well done. I’m sure this will be a helpful book for many. I’ve shared it on my twitter.
Aw, thanks very much! I appreciate it. I like this book a lot. Very, very practical.
Hopefully all new parents will read them and you can save lots of marriages. I really believe lots of divorces happens after having kids just for the stress of becoming parents and the time it takes to adjust to the new normal. Great book !!!!!
Thank you so much! 🙂 Marriage is so hard, and so nuanced, and so is parenting … The combination is amazingly hard.