[.ca] A Passion for More: Wives Reveal the Affairs That Make ... (ISBN 1893163245)

So insightful...I could hardly put it down!:
This is the most intriguing book on infidelity and women ever written. Barash, a professor of gender studies, interviews hundreds of women on why and how they conducted extramarital affairs. While she is not judgmental, her journalistic endeavor is such that one cannot help but imagine every nuance of these trysts and the complications it sets forth in these women's lives. The book is divided into four sections: Empowering Affairs, Self-Esteem Affairs, Love Affairs and Sex Driven Affairs. Barash takes a look at each kind of affair and gives an explanation for the woman's choice. Her percentages are interesting also, 25% of the women leave for the lover, almost half remain in their marriages and renegotiate the marriage, and almost all lovers are the opposite of the husbands. A highly recommended book, well written and insightful.

Fact or Fiction?:
Send me the money you were going to pay for this book after I summarize the similar thread that runs through all 50 so called real life accounts. Woman marries man. Woman becomes dissatisfied b/c of man's lack of interest, romance etc. Woman has "love affair" with outsider. Affair either strengthens or weakens marriage. Woman leaves or stays with husband. End. Of course there are minor variations but that's basically it. Not enough about the circumstances of the start of these affairs to convince me that this is not fiction. And out of 50 husbands whose wives have had affairs, NOT ONE husband gets violent. Come on!

Coping with cheating!:
As a hopeless romantic who after 10 years in a marriage that has gone almost sex-less in the last 3 years this book helped me to remove the shame and guilt associated with "cheating". I now realize that there are many others in my same boat, and even though we may be married to the perfect spouse, there are things we can not do without and if we run into someone in our same boat, and we connect. "whats wrong with that" good book to read!

Cheaters.:
I highly recommend this book because of it's non-judgemental tone. The author just puts out there what she actually hears and doesn't try to interperate it. Women cheat, most likely, because of boredom in a relationship, NOT because they dislike their partners. This book is higly insightful and interesting to those of us who have been in long-term relationships. If you are interested in this sort of book, go for it. It won't let you down. Two others that go along well with it are "Against Love" (Kipnis) and "Playtime" (Corum).

"Passion" is great:
"A Passion for More" gives both women and men insight into the world of extramarital affairs fromawomen's point of view. Never before has this topic been explore through first person interviews with married women who take lovers. Barash neither condemns nor condones but does an excellent job as a journalist in looking at the double lives of women in America today. This is a well written, compelling book that informs the reader. The toughts of therapists, interspersed with the interviews, is a useful guide into women's behavoir