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Doubting the "nature" of traditional family relations is timely, though unnerving for many. The 29 personal essays in Loving Arrangements explore the continuing processes of change and alteration in the understanding and experience of loving marital and non-marital relationships. It begins with challenges to the language associated with marriage and the couple, such as wife/husband and faithfulness/cheating, raising questions about romantic love and the exclusivity of the marital couple. It then explores living arrangements: people who are coupled but bring others into their relationship (sexual or nonsexual partners), couples who are together but live apart, couples who design alternative living arrangements and want to find connection outside in communes and co-housing. It then discusses alternative loving relationships: rejecting monogamy for additional simultaneous amorous relationships, equating friendships with romantic relationships, and dealing with gender transformations within relationships.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Questioning Love, Marriage, & the Couple
Chapter 1: Name-Calling
Margaret D. Stetz
Chapter 2: I Now Pronounce You...Whatever You Two Are
Susan Ostrov Weisser
Chapter 3: Reality TV, Wedding Fantasies, and Actual Reality Collide
Sarah Tucker Jenkins
Chapter 4: Not Drowning but Waving
Beverley Stevens
Chapter 5: Marriage Might Be Work, But It's a Cushy Desk Job Compared to Being Single
Sara Eckel
Chapter 6: Dancing in a Precarious World
Ana Tager
Chapter 7: My Father's Alzheimer's Romance
Stephanie Golden
Part II: Alternative Living Arrangements
Chapter 8: Spelling Bee Love
Mimi Schwartz
Chapter 9: Happily Ever After ...
Helle Trap Friis
Chapter 10: I Want You Here Always. I Can't Live Without You. Now, Please Go Home
Jaime Teich and Chris Nellen
Chapter 11: Our Big, Strange Long-Distance Romance
Mindy Lewis
Chapter 12: A Bicoastal Relationship
Jon Bagdon
Chapter 13: Hundred Mile Marriage
Penelope Scambly Schott
Chapter 14: Margaret Mead and the In Between
D. D. Wood
Chapter 15: A Ten-Year Odyssey
Lisa Gioia-Acres
Chapter 16: Our Pick-Me-Up-From-a-Colonoscopy List
Leah Sherman
Chapter 17: The Evolving Landscape of Platonic Marriages
Pamela Pitman Brown
Chapter 18: What We Gained and What We Lost: Politics, Partners, and Community
Vicki Breitbart
Part III: Alternative Loving Arrangements
Chapter 19: The Golden Girls House: Building Our Own Queer Family
Renee Romanowsky
Chapter 20: Loving the Past, Loving the Present: Polyamory and the Space for Both
Kelli S. Dunham
Chapter 21: This is My Grandmother's Non-Monogamy
Crystal Byrd Farmer
Chapter 22: No One Is Born Knowing:The Myth of Exclusivity
Mari Carmen Diaz Piñar and E. Rafael Jacobs-Perez
Chapter 23: The Bobby Pin
Alex Alberto
Chapter 24: Relationship Anarchy
Tierney Senne
Chapter 25: The Space Between Us Remains the Same (A Long-Lasting, Long-Distance Love Story Spanning Continents & Decades)
Max Sharam
Chapter 26: Fifth Transition
Helen Boyd
Chapter 27: Making Up the Rules as We Go
Ariela E. Rosa
Chapter 28: Highly Sexed: Stages of (Non)Monogamy and (Non)Authentic Living
Paige Averett
Chapter 29: Stunning
Ronald E. Hellman
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
