Marriage Badassism

KDP Book Description

You already know what your spouse needs to fix. This book starts with the harder question: What about you?

Marriage Badassism isn't another marriage book promising perfect communication, perfect date nights, or a relationship where nobody ever gets pissed off.

This book is for real couples.

Couples who love each other but still fight about money, parenting, sex, phones, trust, family, responsibilities, attention, old wounds, and the same damn argument they've somehow had fifty different ways.

Through 30 raw, funny, brutally direct lessons, Marriage Badassism challenges both people to stop keeping score, stop protecting their egos, and start seeing the marriage from both sides.

You'll confront the uncomfortable stuff:

Why you're so good at seeing your spouse's flaws but terrible at seeing your own. Why good intentions don't erase damage. Why the same fights keep coming back. How resentment builds. Why money is rarely just about money. How parenting differences divide couples. What happens when affection and sex disappear. Why feeling wanted matters. How outside attention, family, stress, and old baggage get inside your marriage-and what stronger couples do differently.

But this isn't a book about discovering everything that's wrong with your marriage.

It's about building something better.

You'll learn to recognize destructive patterns earlier, own your part faster, have the conversations you've been avoiding, rebuild connection, create better systems, use your differences as strengths, and eventually stop treating your spouse like the opponent.

Because the goal isn't a marriage that never struggles.

The goal is a marriage where, when life throws something at you, it has to fight both of you.

Author Mikkel O'Banion isn't writing from some perfect-marriage mountaintop. He and his wife, Taylour, are working on their own shit too. Their real arguments, differences, screwups, laughs, and lessons are woven throughout the book because Marriage Badassism isn't about pretending you've mastered marriage.

It's about having enough backbone to keep getting better at it.

Read it together. Read it separately. Move at your own pace.

Just don't read it looking for everything your spouse needs to change.

You bought the damn book.

Now do the work.

STOP TRYING TO WIN. START FIGHTING FOR US.