The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.


A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation (ed. Quill, 1995) - ISBN: 9780688143480

Susan Cheever Quotes

The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both...

The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both...

The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both...

The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both...