Product Description

Is deciding to live together the biggest step in your relationship-or just one more along the way to the altar? Either way, this smart, hip guide will show you how to get the most out of living with your guy. Authors Joselin Linder, a serial-shacker-upper, and Elena Donovan Mauer, a shacker-upper-turned-wife, cover:

• Family issues: how to tell the relatives
• Practical matters: merging separate belongings, sharing a bathroom, divvying up chores
• Money issues: paying the bills, renting vs. buying
• Legal and other sticky matters: buying insurance together, rights for domestic partners, dealing with the "un"-laws
• Romantic pressures: keeping the relationship steamy when date night's become a thing of the past

Live-in relationships can be fraught with questions and emotions. This feisty book covers all the bases and provides expert advice on every aspect of this exciting and romantic move. It's all you need to make your first man-shared space a home.

Joselin Linder has a career that has spanned theater production to the startup of a fashion design company. She now produces film in New York. With her track record, it has been advised that she stick to dating men whose leases aren't ending but, alas, she and her boyfriend recently took the plunge.

Elena Donovan Mauer is a writer and editor specializing in relationships and women's service. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Psychology Today, Modern Bride, Lifetime magazine, and Bridal Guide. She and her live-in guy have been married since 2003. She lives in New York City.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92989 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781598695847
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

About the Author
Joselin Linder's career has spanned theatre production, fashion design and publishing. She now works for Gigantic Pictures and with a group of writers at the Stoned Crow Fiction Workshop. Elena Donovan Mauer is a writer and editor specialising in relationships, women's service and pretty much anything girlie. She has worked as an editor and writer in bridal and lifestyle magazines. Her writing has also appeared in publications such as Psychology Today.

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Customer Reviews

This book was very helpful
I did enjoy reading this book and it is very helpful for someone who is unsure about how it is going to work out living with someone. It gives you live scenarios from real people's situations. I found that this book was greatly helpful in my decision to move in with my boyfriend. It made realize a few things as well. Something I suggest everyone read for one reason or another when considering moving in with her man.

WONDERFUL Needed Resource
What a great book for our generation! So many women choose co-habitation before marriage but we are limited in the advice we can seek. "The Good Girls Guide to Living in Sin: The New Rules for Moving In With Your Man" is filled with great advice to consider before taking the next step in your relationship. It is insightful, humorous, and filled with great advice. There are plenty of books to read once you decide to get married but this is the one for the "real" next step many of us take.

Moving in
I got this for my daughter since she will be moving in with her boyfriend. She said it has been a great help, there were some issues she had not thought of and this really helped.