Everyone plans the wedding — almost nobody plans for what comes after. Maureen McGrath offers frank, essential advice for brides and grooms on the realities of emotional cheating, desire discrepancy, sexless marriages, and how open communication before the wedding can protect your marriage from infidelity for years to come.

No one is a cheater until they are one — and an extramarital affair often reveals far more about the person who had it than about the state of their marriage. Maureen McGrath uses a powerful real-life story to explore why affairs happen, what they expose about unresolved identity and unmet needs, and how couples can choose to rebuild.

With nearly 19 million views, Maureen McGrath’s TEDx talk on no-sex marriage struck a nerve around the world. She speaks candidly about how sexless marriages lead to masturbation, loneliness, cheating, and shame — and why breaking the silence around sexual intimacy in marriage is urgently needed.