It’s one thing to work with a workaholic, but being married to one can be extremely challenging.
Byran Robinson of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte is author of
Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them, which has received several great reviews.
We always hear about the hardship one suffers from a personal divorce, but in an interesting New York Times article, one mother describes her own pain regarding her daughter’s divorce and has written a book about it called, “Your Child’s Divorce: What to Expect…What You Can Do”.
A former Wall Street Journal foregin correspondent, Pamela Druckerman, just published her book, Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee. It hasn’t received great reviews, yet. She compares how different cultures define adultery and how they conceptualize infidelity.
Here’s some interesting data Druckerman found:
-Only 3.8 of married men and 2% [...]
Author Mira Krishenbaum believes couples divorce not because of their irreconcilable differences, but because they don’t spend enough quality time together. She speaks all about this in her book, The Weekend Marriage: Abundant Love in a Time-Starved World, which has received some very positive reviews.
Krishenbaum’s view goes against some who feel that when couples [...]
For Better of For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered is an interesting book by E. Mavis Hetherington about more than 30 years of research involving 1,400 families. The findings dispel conventional beliefs that divorce has mainly negative effects.
It seems like finding that perfect someone can be difficult today. Is it harder for twenty and thirty somethings than it was for their parents when they were the same age? Some say the single status is now becoming an epidemic. Whether you have never been married or are now divorced, a new book recently [...]