Liev Schreiber as Tag Winbury, Nicole Kidman as Greer Winbury in Netflix's The Perfect Couple.
Greer Garrison Winbury gets some supposedly sage but implicitly questionable marital advice from her mother on the morning of her wedding in Elin Hilderbrand’s 2018 novel, The Perfect Couple.
“The most important skill required in marriage was picking one’s battles. Make sure they’re ones you can win,” her mother tells her.
In a marriage, there’s a tension that exists between the outward...