THANKS TO OUR wonderful husbands, who were incredibly supportive while we were writing this book, as well as when our office phones rang off the hook with emergency consultations that sometimes interrupted family occasions! And thanks to our fantastic kids, who gave us their take on texting, Facebook, BlackBerry Messenger, iPhones, Skype, and Twitter! We couldn’t have written this book without you… or without our friends who freely shared their time and dating stories!
A special thanks to all our Rules contacts worldwide, as well as our dating coaches and clients and fans, who encouraged us to write a new book for the Y generation.
And a drumroll, please, for our brilliant literary agent and friend, Caryn Karmatz Rudy, who has always been generous with her time and talent and loyalty for the last fifteen-plus years—and without whom Not Your Mother’s Rules would have been an idea instead of a reality. Last but not least, thanks to Hachette Book Group USA (formerly Warner Books, which published our first book) and a special shout-out to our visionary editor Amanda Englander, who gave us fabulous direction and guidance and was one of our biggest cheerleaders.