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What Marriage Costs Us is a clear-eyed examination of one of the most powerful institutions in modern life-and the quiet toll it takes on those who enter it. Rather than arguing for or against marriage, Timothée Luwewe interrogates what marriage demands in return for its promises of stability, legitimacy, and love. Drawing on cultural analysis, gender theory, lived experience, and contemporary social realities, the book explores marriage as a system shaped by law, economics, visibility, and moral expectation. Luwewe shows how intimacy is altered when it becomes contractual, performative, and publicly evaluated-and how sacrifice is often normalized as virtue rather than recognized as cost. Across its chapters, the book examines:How marriage reframes love as achievement and failure as personal inadequacy The erosion of self that often accompanies long-term compromise The unequal burden of emotional labor and care The economic structures that make leaving harder than staying The pressure to perform happiness in a culture of constant observation The role of law, children, and moral narratives in sustaining unhappy unions Why exit carries such heavy social and psychological penalties And what remains-identity, trust, possibility-after marriage ends or transforms Moving from private relationships to public culture, from ordinary households to branded intimacy, What Marriage Costs Us situates marriage not as a purely personal choice but as a deeply social one. It asks readers to consider not whether marriage is good or bad, but whether it is entered with clarity rather than illusion. Written in a sharp, restrained, and compassionate voice, this book speaks to those who are married, considering marriage, leaving it, or rethinking commitment altogether. It offers language for experiences often lived in silence-and insists that the costs of marriage should never come as a surprise. Marriage is neither salvation nor sentence. But it is never free.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. What Marriage Costs Us is a clear-eyed examination of one of the most powerful institutions in modern life-and the quiet toll it takes on those who enter it. Rather than arguing for or against marriage, Timothee Luwewe interrogates what marriage demands in return for its promises of stability, legitimacy, and love.Drawing on cultural analysis, gender theory, lived experience, and contemporary social realities, the book explores marriage as a system shaped by law, economics, visibility, and moral expectation. Luwewe shows how intimacy is altered when it becomes contractual, performative, and publicly evaluated-and how sacrifice is often normalized as virtue rather than recognized as cost.Across its chapters, the book examines: How marriage reframes love as achievement and failure as personal inadequacyThe erosion of self that often accompanies long-term compromiseThe unequal burden of emotional labor and careThe economic structures that make leaving harder than stayingThe pressure to perform happiness in a culture of constant observationThe role of law, children, and moral narratives in sustaining unhappy unionsWhy exit carries such heavy social and psychological penaltiesAnd what remains-identity, trust, possibility-after marriage ends or transformsMoving from private relationships to public culture, from ordinary households to branded intimacy, What Marriage Costs Us situates marriage not as a purely personal choice but as a deeply social one. It asks readers to consider not whether marriage is good or bad, but whether it is entered with clarity rather than illusion.Written in a sharp, restrained, and compassionate voice, this book speaks to those who are married, considering marriage, leaving it, or rethinking commitment altogether. It offers language for experiences often lived in silence-and insists that the costs of marriage should never come as a surprise.Marriage is neither salvation nor sentence. But it is never free. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798233789793
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