A Passion for More: Wives Reveal the Affairs That Make or Break Their Marriages

by Susan Shapiro Barash

Through this series of first-person accounts, women reveal the emotional, powerful, and sometimes erotic stories of why they broke their marriage vows, what they gained from the experience, and how... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893163245
• ISBN13: 9781893163249
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Berkeley Hills Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Great book from a non-judgemental view

I never thought I would even contemplate an affair after being married to a cheating man. Fifteen years later and I am married to a much older, workaholic, self-absorbed man and find myself very lonely. When I saw the title of this book-"A Passion for More", it was just how I was feeling. It gives you so much perspective on just how complex affairs for women are. It won't give you a "green light" to have an affair, but for me, it helped me sort out my feelings. I would highly recommend!! I read this in just one sitting.

Coping with cheating!

As a hopeless romantic who after 10 years in a marriage that has gone almost sex-less in the last 3 years this book helped me to remove the shame and guilt associated with "cheating". I now realize that there are many others in my same boat, and even though we may be married to the perfect spouse, there are things we can not do without and if we run into someone in our same boat, and we connect. "whats wrong with that" good book to read!

So insightful...I could hardly put it down!

This is the most intriguing book on infidelity and women ever written. Barash, a professor of gender studies, interviews hundreds of women on why and how they conducted extramarital affairs. While she is not judgmental, her journalistic endeavor is such that one cannot help but imagine every nuance of these trysts and the complications it sets forth in these women's lives. The book is divided into four sections: Empowering Affairs, Self-Esteem Affairs, Love Affairs and Sex Driven Affairs. Barash takes a look at each kind of affair and gives an explanation for the woman's choice. Her percentages are interesting also, 25% of the women leave for the lover, almost half remain in their marriages and renegotiate the marriage, and almost all lovers are the opposite of the husbands. A highly recommended book, well written and insightful.

"Passion" is great

"A Passion for More" gives both women and men insight into the world of extramarital affairs fromawomen's point of view. Never before has this topic been explore through first person interviews with married women who take lovers. Barash neither condemns nor condones but does an excellent job as a journalist in looking at the double lives of women in America today. This is a well written, compelling book that informs the reader. The toughts of therapists, interspersed with the interviews, is a useful guide into women's behavoir

Women Who Take Lovers...Truly Fascinating

While reading "A Passion for More," I learned so much more about married women who take lovers. A subject I find truly fascinating. I found the subject matter intriguing and was glued to the book till I finished it. Being a woman, I can honestly say that I can understand how these women feel. Reading this book was a valuable and enlightening experience. I can't wait for her next book.