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The rough patch : marriage and the art of living together

Call Number

  • 306.81 D3727 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Scribner, 2018.

Physical Description

xi, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Contents

  • The rough patch: an introduction
  • A brief history of the midlife crisis
  • Feeling close, in love and sex
  • Marriage as a story
  • Affairs, flirting, and fantasy: they're never about nothing
  • Alcohol and other attempted escapes
  • Money: the knife in the drawer
  • Lovesickness and longing: putting them to use
  • Body, age, health: the stakes only get higher
  • The empty nest: children, parents, and the turning of the generations
  • Staying or leaving
  • Love is a conversation.