Daring Wives: Insight into Women's Desires for Extramarital Affairs

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Riveting vignettes show the inner and outer lives of women engaged in extramarital affairs. In spotlighting the many influences that spur women to cheatfrom marital discord, childhood histories and sociopolitical history to pop and postmodern cultureDr. Praver neither condemns nor condones such affairs. Instead, she aims to help wives and husbands question their own desires and actions, recognize their own roles in marital problems, and become inspired to find creative solutions. This work is an intimate and comprehensive examination of wives' desires for extramarital affairs. It includes vignettes from younger and older wives, as well as working, stay-at-home and remarried wives, from those with and without children, and from those who turn to same-sex affairs. The authoritative and scholary underpinnings are presented in a reader-friendly style that will appeal to all women, as well as to clinicians and academics. Readers who are involved in or considering extramarital affairs will feel supported, validated, and inspired to enter into a dialogue for change. This book and its vivid case studies, filled with dialogue that allows readers a front-row seat in the therapy room, inspire one to listen and learn without harsh perjorative judgments. While the issues here are profound, the book is always evocative and enjoyable.

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"Fran Praver has written a beautifully crafted, illuminating book that explores and transcends the topic of women's infidelity. This book, written with non-judgmental warmth and humanity, explores the dangers and entanglements of love, romance, marriage and its disruptions... This wonderful collection of clinical stories will help mental health professionals and the public to better understand and appreciate the desperate and daring lengths to which people may go in struggling with their passions and commitments." - Lewis Aron, Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, author of Meeting of Minds: Relational Psychoanalysis."

Author Bio

Frances Cohen Praver is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, specializing in women's issues, couples therapy, and trauma. The author of Crossroads at Midlife, she has appeared on Good Morning America and WNBC Weekend in New York, and has been quoted in The New York Times regarding women's infidelity.