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The issues that ultimately wreck marriages -- money and monogamy, career and kids-are hard to gauge until you're actually hitched. So after a few years of dating, Jill Andres and Brook Silva-Braga mapped out forty revealing challenges simulating the issues that could tank or strengthen their union. For a month, they swap credit cards, for a weekend they borrow a baby. An embarrassing lunch with their exes tests their trust issues. Sexual gymnastics are required to recreate TV love scenes. From a night of speed dating to 24 hours handcuffed together, the crazy, awkward, emotional trials fling them headfirst into assorted marital minefields. Is their love strong enough to weather real life? Only forty dates will tell..
About the Author
Jill Andres is a business consultant who helps companies invent new products, from cereal and stereos, to tractors and window panes. She was born in Berkeley, CA but spent most of her youth in the pools and softball fields of Napa Valley where she grew up. Jill later graduated from UC Santa Barbara and Columbia Business School. In her free time, she loves discovering tasty restaurant deals, reading in parks, and sneaking episodes of "The Real Housewives." "The Marriage Test" is her first book.
