03115cam a2200349 i 4500 2470812275 TxAuBib 20250807120000.0 100813s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010034193 9780061719288 0061719285 TxAuBib rda Haag, Pamela. Marriage confidential : the post-romantic age of workhorse wives, royal children, undersexed spouses & rebel couples who are rewriting the rules / Pamela Haag. Post-romantic age of workhorse wives, royal children, undersexed spouses & rebel couples who are rewriting the rules. First edition. New York : HarperCollins, 2011. xvii, 327 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Introduction: Marriage On The Edge: -- Dilemmas of a semi-happy marriage: why we settle for ambivalence -- 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 -- Tom Sawyer marriage: plight of the new workhorse wife -- Joy of falling: downwardly mobile and mutually liberated -- Parenting Marriages: -- .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 -- New Monogamy: -- 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 -- Place where a sick marriage goes to die? : the hidden world of "ethical nonmonogamy" -- Free love 2.0: the new open marriage -- Epilogue: Why can't we have our cake and eat it, too? -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments -- Notes. Overview: Pamela Haag has written the generational "big book" on modern marriage, a mesmerizing, sometimes salacious look at the semi-happy ambivalence lurking just below the surface of many marriages today. The spouses may rarely fight - they may maintain a sincere affection for each other - but one or both may harbor a melancholy sense that something important is missing. 20250807. Marriage Psychological aspects. Married people Psychology. Man-woman relationships Psychological aspects. Parenthood. Work and family.