Marriage confidential the post-romantic age of workhorse wives, royal children, undersexed spouses & rebel couples who are rewriting the rules
Combines autobiographical detail, cultural history, revelatory first-hand accounts, and research to unravel the sources of post-romantic discontent and offers inspiration for those who want more than the semi-happy status quo.
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c2011.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Haag, Pamela. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Marriage confidential : |b the post-romantic age of workhorse wives, royal children, undersexed spouses & rebel couples who are rewriting the rules / |c Pamela Haag. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York, NY : |b HarperCollins, |c c2011. | ||
| 300 | |a xvii, 327 p. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Marriage on the edge. The dilemmas of a semi-happy marriage : why we settle for ambivalence -- The new normals of career and marriage. "Life partners" : how too much intimacy killed intimacy ; "I can bring home the bacon" : how having it all became sort of having two things halfway ; The Tom Sawyer marriage : the plight of the new workhorse wife ; The joy of falling : downwardly mobile and mutually liberated -- Parenting marriages. The have children-will divorce paradox : how parenthood inspires marriage and then steals it ; Children, the new spouses : how the strength of family values became the weakness of family ; Man-cave in the promised land : how spouses reclaim their adulthood by acting like children ; Marital habitats : being married with children in public again -- New twists on old infidelities, or, the way we stray today. Stories of the "AFFAIRS" folder : the underwhelming crisis of infidelity ; "I call it married dating" : the accidental cheater in the age of Facebook and Google ; ISO (in search of) a bubble : the philanderer's defense -- The new monogamy. "The fifty-mile rule" : affair tolerators, then and now, or, the don't ask, don't tell marriage ; "We're making it up as we go along" : sexual libertarianism and the case against marital monogamy ; "A place where a sick marriage goes to die?" : the hidden world of "ethical nonmonogamy" ; "Free love 2.0" : the new open marriage -- "Why can't we have our cake and eat it, too?" | |
| 520 | |a Combines autobiographical detail, cultural history, revelatory first-hand accounts, and research to unravel the sources of post-romantic discontent and offers inspiration for those who want more than the semi-happy status quo. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Marriage |x Psychological aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Married people |x Psychology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Man-woman relationships |x Psychological aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Parenthood. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Work and family. | |
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