The World of the Formerly Married
ISBN-10: N/A
Writer: Morton M. Hunt
Title: The World of the Formerly Married
Place of publication: New York, Toronto, London, Sydney
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Year of publication: 1966
Format: 142x212mm (untrimmed)
Pages: xiii+324
Binding: green cloth bound in colour cover
Weight: 495 gr.
Original price: N/A
Current price: €12,74
Shipping: €4,93
Supplier: Heartland Treasure
Order Number: 68476351
Order Shipped: 23rd April 2021
Entry Number: 2021015
Entry Date: 4th June 2021
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Silence after heated words, the shutting of a suitcase, the final closing of the front door –and then what? Every married person has wondered what it would be like if differences –or indifference–tore his or her marriage apart. Where does one go, how does one feel, what does one do? What are the chances of reconciliation, of a new love, of a better life?
The answers to such questions have been largely hidden from married people because the separated and divorced are so secretive about the special world in which they live –the World of the Formerly Married. There is reason for their discretion: they are painfully aware that their manners and morals violate many of the conventions of the larger society around them, and that their sorrows are often a bore and their joys a threat to the married.
Morton M. Hunt takes the reader on an intimate tour of this strange world, following the Formerly Married through the entire process of marital dissolution, separation, and divorce, and the various phases of their self-rediscovery and readjustment. Through the words and experiences of hundreds of actual people, he reveals surprising aspects of life in that world: the unexpected exhilaration and rejuvenation that often go hand in hand with bouts of dreadful despair; the rediscovery of passion and emotion; the therapeutic values-and potential dangers-of sexual experimentation; the special ecstasies and difficulties of love affairs among the divorced. He explores the emotional meaning of the fight over alimony and property, the potential harm–or benefit– divorce brings to children, the strength of the drive to remarry, the chances of greater success in the second marriage than in the first one.
Here is an eye-opening account of he hidden society in which one out of every four married Americans will eventually dwell. Mr. Hunt has observed and interviewed a broad range of formerly married people,reviewed the scientific findings about them, and conducted a nation-wide survey. But although research supports every statement in his book, it is written with almost novelistic intensity and immediacy; one does not merely read about the experiences of the Formerly Married here –one virtually undergoes them. The World of the Formerly Married shines a light in the darkness for the married, and holds the mirror up to those who are separated or divorced.
