Family - A MisMatch Made In Heaven: Surviving True Love, Children, and Other Blessings In Disguise

The fairy tale begins when we fall in love. Then there's the wedding. But what happens in "happily ever after?" This book will strike a chord with anyone who has ever found true love - and then wondered if maybe they took a wrong turn somewhere.Mike Litrel is a street-smart, Chinese-Italian New Yorker on his way to becoming a doctor. He detours on a spur-of-the-moment road trip, meeting a small town art student from the Midwest. He's a liberal scientist and agnostic, with a family that's Catholic on one side, Buddhist on the other. She is a conservative artist from a family of Protestant ministers.They make the mistake of falling in love.Twenty-five years later, Dr. Litrel and his wife Ann share the poignant and often funny stories of their marriage and parenting differences, describing what happens when husband and wife don't see exactly eye-to-eye.It's a book that places marriage and family in perspective: find out you're not the only one that ever wondered about your marriage. Or whether you have finally messed up your children for good. And as you read, re-discover the hope that there is a Higher Purpose to life - sometimes painful, but sometimes just saying, "It's okay to be human..."