Mountain Brook native David Levin will publish his first book, “A Divorced Dad’s Playbook for the Still-Married,” on Tuesday, Oct. 27. It’s a marriage book for couples who are still together, written by someone who learned its lessons after his own marriage ended.
Levin’s marriage ended in the second of three couples counseling sessions, two weeks before he turned 50. Over the next few years he learned to run a household on his own, became a more present father with half the time and put every dollar on a shared spreadsheet. The book turns those lessons into 13 chapters and 71 tools, including the 15-Minute Weekly Huddle, the One True Calendar and the Quarterly True-Up. Every chapter ends with a short kit of things to start, stop and keep doing.
“Most marriages that feel like they’re failing aren’t facing a foundation problem,” Levin said. “They’re missing skills, and skills are fixable. I learned mine after the divorce. You don’t have to.”
Levin graduated from Mountain Brook High School in 1990. A 1994 graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, he spent 22 years in New York as a digital marketing executive and now lives in Connecticut. He’s a divorced dad of three, plus one stepchild.
The Kindle edition is available for a limited time at 99 cents, and the paperback is $9.99, both on Amazon. More at adivorceddadsplaybook.com.
