Marriage Shock

Heyn, Dalma

ISBN 10: 0385324022 / ISBN 13: 9780385324021

Published by Delta, 1998

Seller Inventory # 0385324022-3-19485925

Synopsis:

An exploration of the trauma that occurs among many women shortly after marriage as they sacrifice their own plans and needs to assure the success of the relationship discusses how marriages can be reconstructed to support and nourish wives. Reprint. Tour.

From the Inside Flap: ffers the revolutionary argument that women leave their marriages not for the reasons commonly believed--boredom, or disharmony with their mate--but because of a subtle trauma that they experience soon after nuptials.<br><br><br><br>Women in first and second marriages, married at twenty or forty-five, describe their unexpected, often lonely transformation from women into wives and their inability to stop, or even articulate, its occurrence. As one woman says, "Within a year of my marrying, my plans for my own life, my own needs, had disappeared." Heyn argues that the ideal of the Virtuous Wife has taught us that she is the one responsible for the quality of the relationship--that to make a marriage work, women must be sacrificing, accommodating, good. But those are qualities for sainthood, not happiness. In fact, they assure precisely the opposite--distress, resentment, and guilt in both partners. <br><br><br><br>Elegantly argued and resounding with the voices of wome

Bibliographic Details

Title: Marriage Shock
Publisher: Delta
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good