Happily Un-Married: Living Together and Loving It

This is much more of a self-help book for relationships and much less a survival handbook for unmarried folk.This book has three 5-star reviews, from 2008, and I was frankly surprised upon receipt of the book. This is basically a guide to writing a business plan for an unmarried couple. The author provides some obvious advice, like this example: define your goals. In reality, that's good advice for all relationships and nothing special that unmarrieds are dealing with.This may be the book for you if you are looking for a new way to approach your relationship and are open to trying it with a business model; it's basically a step-by-step for that. And this kind of advice is, again, not special to unmarrieds.Personally, I fail to see the metaphor applied well enough to employ in my own life. Some of the advice takes the "your relationship is a business" concept too far, and is quite a stretch. What do I mean? Here's one tip the [married] author suggests: Pick a logo or symbol to represents your relationship and use it for branding. What??Those of us who are in an unmarried situation need practical and useful advice specific to our relationship choices. If you need help with the primary issues that many unmarried couples have such as legal concerns, you need to address the emotional & financial impact of staying unmarried, how to be unmarried cohabiting parents, or help on making the decision "should we get married or not", look elsewhere. There are other books and websites available that will guide you, written by those who are actually unmarried.

Great book but, not much information I wanted in an book about unmarried people. I like the charts in the book about the roles of the household of the girlfriend and boyfriend have. It a good read not many books on this subject.

Awesome book!! Buy it

Why would anyone take advice from some carpet bagger who moves into a small town and starts dictating what's best for the community? Seems like the author should spend more time coming up with some other area of "Expertise" because clearly he knows nothing about communcation, interpersonal relations etc. Maybe he can write a book called "Gentrification: How I Stepped In and Tried to Ruin A Culture. A Look at White male Privilege in the mountains."

Really bad. Full of bad advice from the kind of person who would drive around a place he just moved to looking for code violations and reporting them to make friends.

I have read Dr. Curtis' other book, The Business of Love, and when I saw that he had another relationship book out, I knew I had to read this one too. What a wonderful tool for anyone in a cohabitating relationship, preparing for one, or who knows someone who is in one. It gives very specific tools and information that you and partner can do together to strengthen your relationship. It also helps you deal with other people who may be against you living together. This is a highly recommended book!

Have no intentions of reading anything this man has wrote. After moving to a new town and causing an uproar over charity signs and demanded they be taken down form a native residents private property, I don't think I would take any advise from him...

Really? This book is just.... terrible. Written like a manual from a man that has NO idea what he is referring to.