Brook & Jill: Picking a partner is life’s most important decision, but how are we supposed to make it? Being in love is a good start, but the issues that ultimately wreck marriages—money and monogamy, career and kids—are hard to gauge until you’re actually hitched. By the time we raised a family and combined bank accounts, it would be too late to turn back.
So with the help of friends and family, we built “The Marriage Test” to simulate married life before leaping down the aisle. For a month, we traded credit cards, for a weekend we borrowed a baby. Our sex life was strained by recreating TV love scenes, trust was tested at an embarrassing lunch with our exes. Our 40 dates started with a night of speed dating and ended with 24 hours handcuffed together.
“The Marriage Test” recounts the year we spent on an awkward, emotional, life-changing adventure. We agreed at the start: If the dates went well we’d spend our lives together; if not, we were through.