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Books about relationship ambiguity, losing self in marriage, etc...?

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Alcemeg · 05/03/2021 18:45

Hello folks -- I just wanted to know if anyone can recommend any good books that deal with being unhappy in a long-term relationship but having trouble working out the way forward.

My Googling/Amazon skills can't be that great because there must be some excellent reads about this sort of thing, I just haven't found them yet!

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LtGreggs · 05/03/2021 19:13

Do you mean fiction books?

The Women's Room (Marilyn French) is excellent, and addresses de-selfing and relationships in a classic feminist novel.

Jenny Offill writes well with this as a theme too - Dept of Speculation, or recently Weather.

Elizabeth Strout?

Virginia Woolf??

If you mean non-fiction / self-help then ignore me :-)

Alcemeg · 05/03/2021 19:09

Just to add, I mean fiction/novels rather than self-help books.

I enjoyed Angela Jackson's "The Emergence of Judy Taylor" but have failed to find anything else along those lines...

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