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A Passion for More: Wives Reveal the Affairs That Make or Break Their Marriages

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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.

While reading "A Passion for More," I learned so much more about married women who take lovers. A subject I find truly fascinating. I found the subject matter intriguing and was glued to the book till I finished it. Being a woman, I can honestly say that I can understand how these women feel.

Reading this book was a valuable and enlightening experience. I can't wait for her next book.

"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

I never thought I would even contemplate an affair after being married to a cheating man. Fifteen years later and I am married to a much older, workaholic, self-absorbed man and find myself very lonely. When I saw the title of this book-"A Passion for More", it was just how I was feeling. It gives you so much perspective on just how complex affairs for women are. It won't give you a "green light" to have an affair, but for me, it helped me sort out my feelings. I would highly recommend!! I read this in just one sitting.

This book is so bad it almost qualifies as a defective product. If you want to learn about what drives women to cheat, what affairs are like, anything about motivation, pick any other title on Amazon first.

This is a loosely organized, poorly written series of superficial, pointless narratives that left me with little empathy for the women, their husbands, or their lovers. I might have finished it with some empathy for their divorce lawyers, and that's a hard group to feel anything for. A book with this many profiles of this many women should have a lot more range. Instead, an amazing number of those profiled come from a narrow demographic: married in their early twenties, not college graduates. Their lack of guilt was pronounced, but their lack of questioning was staggering. The author's commentary after each vignette was laughably brief. Think someone spending an hour describing a tragedy, say 9/11, in great detail and afterwards the response being, "How very unfortunate" and you get the idea.

Marriages today are complex and the reasons for affairs are, too. There's a difference between being nonjudgmental and being unanalytic and flat. This poorly-titled book is the latter, and Susan Barash should be required to plant enough trees to replace the ones that were made into paper for this pointless, unilluminating waste of time.

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!

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!