At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, What the @#!% is wrong with my husband?! In David Finch�s case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains David�s ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down in social exchanges, and his clinical-strength inflexibility. But it doesn�t make him any easier to live with. Determined to change, David sets out to understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better husband� no easy task for a guy whose inability to express himself rivals his two-year-old daughter�s, who thinks his responsibility for laundry extends no further than throwing things in (or at) the hamper, and whose autism-spectrum condition makes seeing his wife�s point of view a near impossibility. Nevertheless, David devotes himself to improving his marriage with an endearing yet hilarious zeal that involves excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all, the Journal of Best Practices: a collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies that result from self-reflection both comic and painful. They include �Don�t change the radio station when she�s singing along,� �Apologies do not count when you shout them,� and �Be her friend, first and always.� Guided by the Journal of Best Practices, David transforms himself over the course of two years from the world�s most trying husband to the husband who tries the hardest, the husband he�d always meant to be. Filled with humor and surprising wisdom, The Journal of Best Practices is a candid story of ruthless self-improvement, a unique window into living with an autism-spectrum condition, and proof that a true heart can conquer all.