The host of CNN's Sonya Live! offers a nonjudgmental look at women who have found love and self-fulfillment outside their marriages in secret, long-term relationships. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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The adulterous wife emerges as the unlikely heroine in these revelations collected by Friedman, the psychologist host of CNN's Sonya Live , in interviews with 100 married women, aged 23 to 76, who have taken either male or lesbian lovers. Assisted by freelance writer Forsyth, Friedman credits the sexual revolution and Betty Friedan with helping to motivate wives to venture into what she calls the "wife/wench" double life, complicated by risk and gratuitous obstacles. However, the lovers in these cases--who are often family friends--still tend to give priority, Friedman stresses, to their roles as spouses and parents. And while sex and romance may remain vital to illicit love, the women claim it is the companionship offered by an affair that helps them "tolerate" their marriages--only a third of which end in divorce. Despite greater open-mindedness about taboo subjects, the authors conclude that exercising candor about such entanglements is still "tantamount to self-destruction."
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The author of Smart Cookies Don't Crumble ( LJ 6/1/85) interviews more than 100 women leading double lives as wives and lovers.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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It is nice to know I am "normal",
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This review is from: Secret Loves: Women With Two Lives (Hardcover)
This book was a bit clinical for the first chapter or two, but then it became very personal and on a human level. Books where one can go "oh that is me" are such a surprise, especially when you begin reading it thinking this will not help because nothing can help me. The book comes across loving and non-judgemental. My guess would be that most people reading these sorts of books really did not go looking for an extra-marital affair either physically or emotionally and are taken back when it does occur. Happy reading.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Book,
By Cameron (Southern Cal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Secret Loves: Women With Two Lives (Hardcover)
The author uses actual cases to identify and explore why some women have long term affairs or external relationships to their marriage. Dr. Friedman breaks the stereotypes and speaks of the taboo, that women are people too, and that sometimes actions transcend gender. The author simply identifies and explores the phenomena, but does not "promote" affairs. I found the book to be a fascinating read, and I have loaned it out to several others as well. I would never recommned such a lifestyle, but I now have a better understanding as to why it occurs. Perhaps men should read the book to give them insight into what they can do and not do to strenthen their relationships with their wives.
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WOMEN WITH 2 LIVES,
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This review is from: Secret Loves: Women With Two Lives (Hardcover)
VERY GOOD BOOK - SLOW READING BUT VERY INTERESTING - I'VE LIVED THIS DOUBLE LIFE FOR 19YRS - UNTIL RECENTLY WHEN HE DECIDED TO GO A YOUNGER WOMAN - THE SAD THING IT THAT WE CAN NEVER BE FRIENDS AGAIN - I DON'T REGET ANY OF IT - I DON'T ADVISE IT TOO ANYONE BUT I TRUELY DON'T REGRET IT & MAY I ADD THAT I'M STILL MARRIED & HE MIGHT NOT BE!!
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