"The host of CNN's "Sonya Live!" and best-selling author of Men Are Just Desserts and Smart Cookies Don't Crumble offers a frank, controversial, and ultimately sympathetic look at women who have found love and self-fulfillment in secret, serious, and lasting relationships outside of their marriages." "Dr. Sonya Friedman interviewed more than one hundred women from all walks of life, educational levels, and economic brackets to discover not only how they orchestrated such complex lives - for decades, in some cases - but also how they felt, as wives and mothers, about their double lives." "Secret Loves addresses the basic assumptions most women live with: that it is selfish and outrageous to seek fulfillment extramaritally; that having more than one romantic relationship must incur guilt; that you may never act on the fact that your man doesn't satisfy all your needs." "These women's voices make a strong statement: It is possible for a woman to have a fierce drive to keep her marriage intact and an equally unquenchable desire to find personal happiness, even if it means going outside of her marriage to achieve it. Their stories are at once a cautionary tale and an intimate look at women's needs - and how women sometimes meet those needs."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved