Lori Gottlieb suggests the unthinkable: what if she, and single women everywhere, need to stop chasing the elusive Mr Perfect and instead opt for Mr Good Enough?
Embarking on her own journey to find the ideal partner, Lori explores a prevalent issue facing women today - how do you reconcile a strong desire for a husband and family without wanting to settle for anything less than the perfect package…?
After interviewing a range of people from behavioural therapists to marriage counsellors, neuropsychologists to divorce lawyers, as well as single and married men and women from their twenties right up to their sixties, Lori is well placed to offer an answer
Mr Good Enough is this year's intelligent, eye-opening insight into modern relationships - a fast, funny read which 'might just be a formula for marital bliss' The Times

Mr Good Enough: The case for choosing a Real Man over holding out for Mr Perfect

Gottlieb, Lori

Parenting & Relationships

Collins

I Love You, Nice to Meet You: A Guy and a Girl Give the Lowdown on Coupling Up

A hilarious, razor-sharp look at the mating rituals of the dating species. Lori and Kevin are smart, honest, funny thirtysomething hopeless romantics who--despite their best efforts--are still single. They've seen it all in the dating wars and come back from the front with plenty of emotional scar tissue. Like romance anthropologists, they deconstruct every key moment in the life cycle of a relationship from what the fake purse grab really means when the check comes to who gets "home couch advantage" in couples therapy. In this book, get both the male and female perspectives on: * Fighting etiquette (is all fair in love and war?) * Voicemail message analysis. ("Hi, it's who?") * Body hair (where, why, and how much?)* Blind dates (are your good friends good pimps?). * How to identify (and avoid) freaks * To cry or not to cry (if you're a guy) in front of a woman. * Terms of adorement (should you save the pet names for your dog?) * Cheating (without actually cheating) * Knowing when a relationship is really over (or: Whether it's better to dump or be dumped) * And much, much more. I Love You, Nice to Meet You is a hilarious and eye-opening collection of "anecdates" from a guy and a girl who just want to find the one, but--lucky for you--they haven't.

Bleyer, Kevin

Health, Fitness & Dieting

St.Martin's Press

Lori and Kevin are smart, honest, funny thirtysomething hopeless romantics who---despite their best efforts---are still single. Like romance anthropologists, they deconstruct every key moment in the life cycle of a relationship. In this book, get both the male and female perspectives on: * Fighting etiquette (is all fair in love and war?)* Voice-mail message analysis. ("Hi, it's who?")* Body hair (where, why, and how much?)* Blind dates (are your good friends good pimps?)* To cry or not to cry (if you're a guy) in front of a woman* Cheating (without actually cheating)* Knowing when a relationship is really over (or: whether it's better to dump or be dumped)* And much, much more I Love You, Nice to Meet You is a hilarious and eye-opening collection of anecdotes from a guy and a girl who just want to find the one, but---lucky for you---they haven't.

St. Martin's: Griffin

<div>INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC! "Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing." -- Katie Couric &nbsp; "This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book." -- Arianna Huffington, founder,&nbsp;Huffington Post, and founder & CEO, Thrive Global &nbsp; "Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book." --Susan Cain,New York Times best-selling author of&nbsp;Quiet From aNew York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she) One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. &nbsp; As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives--a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys--she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell. &nbsp; With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change. &nbsp; Maybe You Should Talk to Someoneis rev­olutionary in its candor, offering a deeply per­sonal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly reveal­ing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.</div>

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Harper Paperbacks

Based on Lori Gottlieb's groundbreaking runaway bestseller Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, this official companion journal offers 52 weekly thought-provoking sessions to help you transform your life. 
"Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way,” Lori tells readers. “Each line, sentence, and word you write in this journal is an essential step, one footprint on a path to meaningful and lasting change." 
In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb gave us a brilliant behind the scenes look at a therapist doing everything to help her patients—and herself. Now, in this gorgeous guided journal, you can put Gottlieb's compelling ideas into practice in your own life. Structured as a weekly therapy session, the journal takes you through 52 thought-provoking prompts to consider over the course of seven days–just like the time between sessions–opening the possibility for meaningful growth and reflection. 
Along with captivating illustrations, reflective coloring pages, kindness check-ins, progress assessments, and Lori’s personal introduction, this journal offers a unique experience to help you gently go deep and hear the clarity of your own voice. Love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, and hope and change have never been more accessible than in this must-have, powerful road map for changing your life.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Journal: 52 Weekly Sessions to Transform Your Life

Mental Health

Harper

An Alternate Selection of the Book of the Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club
“Although it reads like a novel—a funny, touching, and absolutely gripping novel—Stick Figure is, astonishingly, the diary of Lori Gottlieb in 1978, when, at age 11 and all evidence to the contrary, she decided she was too fat and simply stopped eating…” —Boston Globe
Growing up in Beverly Hills in the 1970s, Lori Gottlieb learned the lessons her culture had to teach her—for example, that “no one could ever like a girl with thunder thighs.” Lori took those lessons seriously, and saw her world fall slowly apart as she developed a fierce reluctance to eat—winding up hospitalized when her “diet” took over her life. Fortunately, she recorded the journey in her diary, and her story is funny, slyly insightful, and surprisingly universal. A Los Angeles Times bestseller, Lori’s story is being made into a motion picture film by Martin Scorsese’s company, Carpo Productions.

Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

BERKLEY

An eye-opening, funny, painful, and always truthful in-depth examination of modern relationships and a wake-up call for single women about getting real about Mr. Right. You have a fulfilling job, great friends, and the perfect apartment. So what if you haven’t found “The One” just yet. He’ll come along someday, right? But what if he doesn’t? Or what if Mr. Right had been, well, Mr. Right in Front of You—but you passed him by? Nearing forty and still single, journalist Lori Gottlieb started to wonder: What makes for lasting romantic fulfillment, and are we looking for those qualities when we’re dating? Are we too picky about trivial things that don’t matter, and not picky enough about the often overlooked things that do? In Marry Him, Gottlieb explores an all-too-common dilemma—how to reconcile the desire for a happy marriage with a list of must-haves and deal-breakers so long and complicated that many great guys get misguidedly eliminated. On a quest to find the answer, Gottlieb sets out on her own journey in search of love, discovering wisdom and surprising insights from sociologists and neurobiologists, marital researchers and behavioral economists—as well as single and married men and women of all generations.

Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

Self-Help

Relationships

Lori Gottlieb discusses Marry Him in a video on The Atlantic website.You have a fulfilling job, a great group of friends, the perfect apartment, and no shortage of dates. So what if you haven't found The One just yet. Surely he'll come along, right? But what if he doesn't? Or even worse, what if he already has, but you just didn't realize it? Suddenly finding herself forty and single, Lori Gottlieb said the unthinkable in her March 2008 article in The Atlantic: Maybe she and single women everywhere, needed to stop chasing the elusive Prince Charming and instead go for Mr. Good Enough. Looking at her friends' happy marriages to good enough guys who happen to be excellent husbands and fathers, Gottlieb declared it time to reevaluate what we really need in a partner. Her ideas created a firestorm of controversy from outlets like the Today show to The Washington Post, which wrote, "Given the perennial shortage of perfect men, Gottlieb's probably got a point," to Newsweek and NPR, which declared, "Lori Gottlieb didn't want to take her mother's advice to be less picky, but now that she's turned forty, she wonders if her mother is right." Women all over the world were talking. But while many people agreed that they should have more realistic expectations, what did that actually mean out in the real world, where Gottlieb and women like her were inexorably drawn to their "type"? That's where Marry Him comes in. By looking at everything from culture to biology, in Marry Him Gottlieb frankly explores the dilemma that so many women today seem to face--how to reconcile the strong desire for a husband and family with a list of must-haves so long and complicated that many great guys get rejected out of the gate. Here Gottlieb shares her own journey in the quest for romantic fulfillment, and in the process gets wise guidance and surprising insights from marital researchers, matchmakers, dating coaches, behavioral economists, neuropsychologists, sociologists, couples therapists, divorce lawyers, and clergy--as well as single and married men and women, ranging in age from their twenties to their sixties. Marry Him is an eye-opening, often funny, sometimes painful, and always truthful in-depth examination of the modern dating landscape, and ultimately, a provocative wake-up call about getting real about Mr. Right.

Dutton

Demco Media

Living in Beverly Hills in the 1970's, an elevenyearold girl faced the pressures of her environment to be perfect in weight and presentation, yet when things got out of control, she needed help to return to normal and get a hold of her life once more.

Simon&Schuster

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Mr Good Enough: The case for choosing a Real Man over holding out for Mr Perfect

I Love You, Nice to Meet You: A Guy and a Girl Give the Lowdown on Coupling Up

I Love You, Nice to Meet You: A Guy and a Girl Give the Lowdown on Coupling Up

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Journal: 52 Weekly Sessions to Transform Your Life

Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self

Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self

Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self