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	• The Conscious Bride: Women Unveil Their True Feelings About Getting Hitched (Women Talk About) Sheryl Paul New Harbinger Publications, 2000 - 220 pages average customer review:based on 48 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Helpful and insightful

I found this book thought-provoking and helpful! I picked it out because I was hoping to get some clues as to how to deal with the stress of my engagement, but while reading it I found myself sinking further into introspection, which was actually really good. This book doesn't necessarily have answers, but it makes you ask yourself questions that you may not otherwise have asked. I plan to read it again, just to see what I discover the second time through!

Fantastic through the transition from single to married..

I have read many books on similar subject matter. However, this one sort of wakes up the reality. Engagement is the bridge between singlehood and wife. There are lots of emotions and expectations flying, and it can be incredibly overwhelming. This book is a lovely "calm down". I also like that it's focus is on your feelings about "marriage" verses the wedding. The wedding lasts a night, the marriage hopefully lasts the rest of your lives!.

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Looking at another side to the wedding process

As an engagement gift a girl who I used to work with sent me two books about the wedding process. One of which was "The Conscious Bride." At first glance I threw it aside thinking that it would be about etiquette and how to treat my guests right (which I am honestly sick of hearing about because in trying to be a good bride I am sacrificing what I want out of the day). Then one day when I was bored at my fiance's I started to read the book and realized that it was actually about being conscious of all the emotionally changes and realizations we go through during the planning process, the actual day of the wedding, and immediate time afterwards. The book basically talks about validating your feelings and while it doesn't exactly give specific advice, it does say things like "you need to talk about your feelings with your friends, mother, father, FH, etc." so that they don't blow up and cause more problems that some women have said they regret for years.

I think we get so wrapped up in getting the right vendors for the right costs that we all get overwhelmed and it causes us to be emotional wrecks. Multiple women talk about how they cry a lot, don't feel supported etc. and after reading some of this book and exploring my own feelings about my upcoming wedding I realized that while we get pots, towels, lingerie, and magazines on how to plan the aesthetically perfect wedding from others, I think what we really need is a place to come to explore our opinions and emotions about marriage as a whole. "What do you think about changing your name?" "How do you feel about moving in with with your fiance/husband?" etc.

That being said, I'm a very introspective person, but since I have been too busy to think about myself at all over the last 4 1/2 months, I think this book has really helped me work through much of my confusion, frustration, doubts, etc. and made me feel so much better about my relationship with my fiance.

I've read some of the other reviews and have seen people say that they feel the book is dated, feminist, sexist, and a bunch of other things. But I think what this book is really meant to do is prompt brides to think about their emotions concerning getting married and no matter what your age (they do address many different life situations) is I think you can find something in here that is helpful.

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While family and future in-laws squabble over the menu and the table decorations, brides are supposed to sit and smile and bask in the prospect of their happiness-even though that prospect is guaranteed to include the post-wedding depression that hits some 90 percent of women during their first year of marriage.

This is a must-have book for any woman who has found the partner she wants to be with for the rest of her life and has made up her mind to celebrate that commitment.

Bridal counselor Sheryl Paul interviewed a diverse group of women who share their true feelings about the many concerns that can make an engagement a roller coaster of emotional ups and downs. Along with practical advise and support, you will find welcome acknowledgement of shared doubts and feats that so often run amok as wedding bells take their toll.

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