What Price Power" ... When a woman decides to expand her options and to pursue a professional career during an already established marriage, as many women do, she may experience profound changes in her marriage and unfortunately, divorce often results. Dr. Birnbaum has counseled many women and couples experiencing this crisis. Her enormous success in helping couples to bridge the transition and to have a more exciting fulfilling relationship, motivated her to conduct an in-depth study of the dynamics of the professional woman in a relationship. What price power contains the results of her study along with her very successful methodology."--Adapted from page 4 of cover |
Contents
The Vital Decision | 1 |
A Healthy Person or a Healthy Female | 14 |
Why Are Women Seen As Selfish While Men Successful? | 20 |
Career Women Have More Fun in Bed | 34 |
Seven Steps to Personal Happiness | 41 |
The Eight Steps to Happiness for a Woman in a Relationship | 47 |
How Women Look At Love | 58 |
The Happoest Women | 67 |
The 21st Century An Exciting Time for Relationships | 98 |
Mid Life Crisis | 107 |
Men Who Control and Women Who Let Them | 117 |
The Gray Area | 131 |
The Flying Nun | 136 |
The Most Frequently Asked Questions | 144 |
Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire | 172 |
The Future | 187 |
Are Women Victims or Participants? | 78 |
Problems of Marriage | 92 |
The Optimum Healthy Relationship | 198 |
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