What possesses millions each year to risk everything for fleeting romance and stolen moments? Richard Taylor writes of understanding affairs in the hope of strengthening marriage.
Love Affairs: Marriage and Infidelity explores in depth the affair and its often painful consequences. Taylor crafts an understanding of why people become involved in extramarital affairs, and offers ways to lessen the marital damage an affair can cause. While exploring the love affair and its potentially harmful effects, Taylor stresses the importance of marriage, fidelity, and lasting love as the basis for true happiness. He also offers valuable advice for those who find divorce the only answer open to them.
In practical, non-moralistic ways intensely intimate issues are examined: love and marriage; the ethics of having love affairs; fidelity; love and destruction; how love affairs start; vanity and sex; the language of the eyes; rules for husbands, wives, and lovers; rules about feelings; the fulfilment of need; extramarital fidelity, divorce, and more.
RICHARD TAYLOR (Interlaken, NY) has held professorships in philosophy at Brown and Columbia universities. and at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Good and Evil; Restoring Pride; and Freedom, Anarchy, and the Law, all published by Prometheus Books (see Philosophy Titles