| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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?" |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Marriage -- Psychological aspects.
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Married people -- Psychology.
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Man-woman relationships -- Psychological aspects.
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Parenthood.
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Work and family.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haag, Pamela. Marriage confidential. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2011 9780061719288 (DLC) 2010034193 (OCoLC)656556689 |
| ISBN |
9780062079558 (electronic bk.) |
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0062079557 (electronic bk.) |
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