Two Bachelors Discover the Secrets of America’s Greatest Marriages
Jaded by his parents’ divorce and the countless marriages unraveling around him, Mathew Boggs was a young man who’d lost all belief in lifelong love. Roped into chauffeuring his grandma and dying grandfather on weekly adventures, he realized that, sixty-three years later, they were still madly in love.”Now, that’s the marriage I want!” he said to himself.
“An inspiring and surprisingly insightful look at longtime love.” ~ Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Fired up to find more success stories, Mat talked his best friend, Jason Miller, a clueless commitmentphobe, into joining him on a cross-country search for America’s greatest marriages, which they called “Project Everlasting.” The two bumbling bachelors jumped in an RV and embarked on a 12,000-mile adventure, encompassing the beaches of Los Angeles, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, the bayous of Louisiana, and the mountains of Montana, to discover what it takes to make love last — not from Ph.D.s or therapists but from more than 200 real couples who had walked the walk to more than forty years of marriage.
In Project Everlasting, they share their wisdom. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the pressing questions the bachelors asked the couples:
How did you know you’d found the One?
How do you keep from driving each other nuts?
What’s missing from today’s marriages?
How do you keep the romance alive?
How do you bring an “It’ll Do” marriage back to “I Do!”?
What’s the number one secret to an amazing marriage?
What’s the secret to staying in love for a lifetime?
What message would you give to the younger generations?
The couples opened their hearts and homes to Mat and Jason to reveal intimate and authentic portraits of fulfilling marriage. Couples like the Byrds, in New Orleans, who lost nearly everything they owned in the devastation of Katrina — except their love and commitment to each other. Or ninety-somethings Ruth and Eddie Elcott in Los Angeles, who spent the first two years of their marriage separated by World War II and the later years of their marriage reading their wartime love letters to each other at bedtime.
Along the way, Mat and Jason began to understand why their own relationships hadn’t worked out quite as planned. They also realized that what they were learning from their wise new friends could change everything for them and — through Project Everlasting — show their generation and generations to come how to build a marriage to last.
Listen to Author Jason Miller read a Love Story from the Book:
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Publisher’s Details
Published by Simon & Schuster
Fireside, June 2007
Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1-4165-4325-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-4325-1
Ordering in bulk? You may qualify for a discount.
For details, please contact:
Simon and Schuster – Special Sales
1230 Ave. of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
(212) 698-2105
(212) 698-2863 (fax)
Project Everlasting Book
The only marriage book written by two bachelors! Discover the secrets to everlasting love from over 200 real-life couples. Mat and Jason inscribe the book to you or your gift recipients!
Get the Gift Package Discount! Love stories and genuine relationship principles from America’s Greatest Marriages will move your heart. This package includes the doc film and book. Mat and Jason inscribe the book to you or your gift recipients!
Project Everlasting Book
Two Bachelors Discover the Secrets of America’s Greatest Marriages
Jaded by his parents’ divorce and the countless marriages unraveling around him, Mathew Boggs was a young man who’d lost all belief in lifelong love. Roped into chauffeuring his grandma and dying grandfather on weekly adventures, he realized that, sixty-three years later, they were still madly in love.”Now, that’s the marriage I want!” he said to himself.
“An inspiring and surprisingly insightful look at longtime love.”
~ Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Fired up to find more success stories, Mat talked his best friend, Jason Miller, a clueless commitmentphobe, into joining him on a cross-country search for America’s greatest marriages, which they called “Project Everlasting.” The two bumbling bachelors jumped in an RV and embarked on a 12,000-mile adventure, encompassing the beaches of Los Angeles, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, the bayous of Louisiana, and the mountains of Montana, to discover what it takes to make love last — not from Ph.D.s or therapists but from more than 200 real couples who had walked the walk to more than forty years of marriage.
In Project Everlasting, they share their wisdom. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the pressing questions the bachelors asked the couples:
The couples opened their hearts and homes to Mat and Jason to reveal intimate and authentic portraits of fulfilling marriage. Couples like the Byrds, in New Orleans, who lost nearly everything they owned in the devastation of Katrina — except their love and commitment to each other. Or ninety-somethings Ruth and Eddie Elcott in Los Angeles, who spent the first two years of their marriage separated by World War II and the later years of their marriage reading their wartime love letters to each other at bedtime.
Along the way, Mat and Jason began to understand why their own relationships hadn’t worked out quite as planned. They also realized that what they were learning from their wise new friends could change everything for them and — through Project Everlasting — show their generation and generations to come how to build a marriage to last.
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Publisher’s Details
Published by Simon & Schuster
Fireside, June 2007
Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1-4165-4325-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-4325-1
Ordering in bulk? You may qualify for a discount.
For details, please contact:
Simon and Schuster – Special Sales
1230 Ave. of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
(212) 698-2105
(212) 698-2863 (fax)
Project Everlasting Book
The only marriage book written by two bachelors! Discover the secrets to everlasting love from over 200 real-life couples. Mat and Jason inscribe the book to you or your gift recipients!
[Learn More]
The Everlasting Love Package
Get the Gift Package Discount! Love stories and genuine relationship principles from America’s Greatest Marriages will move your heart. This package includes the doc film and book. Mat and Jason inscribe the book to you or your gift recipients!
[Learn More]