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Sooner or later in almost every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, "What's wrong with my husband?!" In David Finch's circumstance, this actually is an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger symptoms. The diagnosis clarifies David's ever-growing set of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and often melt down in interpersonal exchanges, and his medical strength inflexibility. But it doesn't make him any easier to live with. Determined to improve, David models out to understand Asperger symptoms and figure out how to be an improved hubby - no easy task for a man whose inability to express himself rivals his two-year-old daughter's, who thinks his responsibility for laundry stretches no more than throwing things in (or at) the hamper, and whose autism range condition makes discovering his wife's viewpoint a close to impossibility. Nevertheless, David devotes himself to bettering his marriage with an endearing, yet hilarious, zeal that involves increased note-taking, performance reviews, and almost all of all, The Journal of Best Routines: a assortment of a huge selection of maxims and hard-won epiphanies that derive from self-reflection, both comic and unpleasant. They include "Don't change the radio place when she's singing along", "Apologies do not count up when you shout them", and "Be her friend, first and always". Led by The Journal of Best Routines, David changes himself during the period of 2 yrs from the world's most seeking hubby to the hubby who attempts the hardest - the hubby he'd always designed to be. Filled with laughter and surprising knowledge, The Journal of Best Routines is a candid report of ruthless self-improvement, a distinctive window into living with an autism range condition, and confirmation a true heart can conquer all.
