One of my favorite people is coming to town on Sunday, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Mary Hance, aka Ms. Cheap, has written a new book, Love for a Lifetime: Daily Wisdom and Wit for a Long and Happy Marriage (Turner Publishing Co., $14.95).

Before her oldest daughter Elizabeth was married a few years ago, Mary started asking her friends, family and Tennessean readers for their best piece of advice to young couples to insure a long and successful marriage. She wanted to compile them as a wedding present. She did the same when younger daughter Anna got married last year.

From there the advice kept coming. Luckily for the rest of us, she decided to compile the best into a new book. Of course the fact that it’s been published right before the most romantic holiday of the year – and just in time for wedding season – is a lucky coup too.

Here are a few of my favorite words of wisdom from the book:

“Remember those precious words, “You are probably right …” – Dianne Gregory.

“My dad told me on the day of my wedding never to go in a place that you wouldn’t take your wife. We have been married for 51 years.” – David Gibbs.

“Feed him well, give him plenty of sex, and don’t bitch at him. It sounds simple, because it is. A friend asked once, ‘That’s great for him, but what do you get out of it?’ I quickly replied, ‘Anything I want!’” – Melinda Bacurin.

But the best piece of advice, by far, is found on Page 110, for Day 227:

“Get married, get in a Ryder truck and move 2,000 miles from your families, and start your life together. That way you have to depend on each other from the beginning. You just have each other and you can’t run home to Mama.” – Susan Leathers.

Mary will be at the Cool Springs Barnes & Noble on Mallory Lane at 2 p.m. See you there!