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Marriage confidential, love in the post-romantic age, Pamela Haag

eng

Includes bibliographical references

no index present

non fiction

Marriage confidential

Pamela Haag

love in the post-romantic age

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Dilemmas of a Semi-Happy Marriage -- Why We Settle for Ambivalence -- pt. I THE NEW NORMALS OF CAREER AND MARRIAGE -- ch. 2 "Life Partners" -- How Too Much Intimacy Killed Intimacy -- ch. 3 "I Can Bring Home the Bacon" -- How Having It All Became Sort of Having Two Things Halfway -- ch. 4 The Tom Sawyer Marriage -- The Plight of the New Workhorse Wife -- ch. 5 The Joy of Falling -- Downwardly Mobile and Mutually Liberated -- pt. II PARENTING MARRIAGES -- ch. 6 The Have Children-Will Divorce Paradox -- How Parenthood Inspires Marriage and Then Steals It -- ch. 7 Children: The New Spouses -- How the Strength of Family Values Became the Weakness of Family -- ch. 8 Man-Cave in the Promised Land -- How Spouses Reclaim Their Adulthood by Acting Like Children -- ch. 9 Marital Habitats -- Being Married with Children in Public Again -- pt. III NEW TWISTS ON OLD INFIDELITIES, OR, THE WAY WE STRAY TODAY -- ch. 10 Stories of the "AFFAIRS" Folder --Contents note continued: The Underwhelming Crisis of Infidelity -- ch. 11 "I Call It Married Dating" -- The Accidental Cheater in the Age of Facebook and Google -- ch. 12 ISO (In Search Of): A Bubble -- The Philanderer's Defense -- pt. IV THE NEW MONOGAMY -- ch. 13 "The Fifty-Mile Rule" -- Affair Tolerators, Then and Now, or, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Marriage -- ch. 14 "We're Making It Up as We Go Along" -- Sexual Libertarianism and the Case Against Marital Monogamy -- ch. 15 "A Place Where a Sick Marriage Goes to Die?" -- The Hidden World of "Ethical Nonmonogamy" -- ch. 16 "Free Love 2.0" -- The New Open Marriage

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