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.