The rough patch : marriage and the art of living together
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.