Marriage confidential : the post-romantic age of workhorse wives, royal children, undersexed spouses & rebel couples who are rewriting the rules /: the post-romantic age of workhorse wives, royal children, undersexed spouses & rebel couples who are rewriting the rules. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pamela Haag.
• Other Names: Haag, Pamela
• 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?"
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages)
• Subjects: 155.6/45; Social Science -- General; Marriage -- Psychological aspects; Married people -- Psychology; Man-woman relationships -- Psychological aspects; Parenthood; Work and family; Man-woman relationships -- Psychological aspects; Marriage -- Psychological aspects; Married people -- Psychology; Parenthood; Work and family; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062079558; 0062079557
• Related ISBNs: 9780061719288; 0061719285
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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