No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried to Make It Better

Nearly a decade into what was already a good marriage—despite a lost pregnancy and religious and temperamental differences—Weil spent a year actively improving her union by gleaning wisdom from self-help books, and with her husband, a fellow writer, sampling couples counseling, sex therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy. This is a more verbose and unnecessary outgrowth of a New York Times Magazine cover story, but Weil’s candid, self-deprecatingly amusing tone and her sane, perceptive “let’s-fix-it-before-it-breaks” advice should inspire other couples to approach their marriages with similar care and vigor. (Feb.)