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...been married 45 years. Is your husband your first reader...
Traveling to Dublin, where she believes her renegade husband to have retreated after their shotgun wedding, Letty finds herself enmeshed in a world of subterfuge and shifting aliases. As Letty stumbles blindly through the dark warrens of Dublin’s crypts and other rebel depots, I was not able to deduce any sort of internal logic to her rambling experiences...
...said that she and her husband, Steve Dostart, president of California-based Dostart Development Company, “had a lot of very explicit conversations about how our lives would mesh...
Until last year, Chen Hong considered divorce an exotic American concept, as far removed from her life in Shanghai as gastric-bypass surgery or an addiction to reality-TV shows. Then she checked out her husband's cell-phone records. Hundreds of calls had been made to a mysterious number, sometimes just minutes after Chen left for work or took her daughter out to play. Like most Chinese women, Chen had abided by Confucian tradition, which advises that a virtuous wife should serve her husband like God, no matter what. But Confucius lived centuries ago, and Chen...
...difference is that fewer and fewer women feel compelled to put up with it. The ex-husband of Li Jie, 34, a sales manager for a Shanghai trading firm, kept a mistress for years, even introducing her to his co-workers. But after Li walked in on her husband and his girlfriend in the bedroom, she ended her six-year marriage. "Women have more expectations from marriage now," she says. "They won't put up with the things their mothers or grandmothers might have, and they're not ashamed about divorce, either." (Li's name has been changed to protect...