A Passion for More

A Passion for More an intimate and trailblazing look at the reasons women in monogamous relationships and marriages take a lover. In this breakthrough book, women confide how they balance the emotional and physical aspects of their trysts. Follow Susan Shapiro Barash's fascinating and provocative investigation into the reasons why and how a diverse group of women in their twenties to their eighties conduct affairs outside their marriages and committed relationships. Through personal accounts of over seventy women, we get a wide-angle picture of how women choose a lover as a form of self-exploration and agency. In A Passion for More, Susan breaks down and analyzes the four types of affairs: ????????— EMPOWERING AFFAIRS ???????— SEX-DRIVEN AFFAIRS ?????— LOVE AFFAIRS ???— SELF-ESTEEM AFFAIRS ???? A Passion for More reveals: ?? How having a lover helps a woman to remain in an unhappy marriage or relationship, How women renegotiate a marriage/monogamous relationship after the affair How women renegotiate a marriage/monogamous relationship after the affair, How an affair can improve one's marriage/monogamous relationship, How an affair is often the catalyst to leave a marriage/longstanding relationship.