"Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel opens as Yasmin, her parents and her brother pile into...

"Three short stories about love and marriage and the ups and downs, ins and outs of a relationship. Some deceit is going on, some boredom is taking place, and some dreams have come to a halt. There is fear involved that comes to a conclusion, and one man's bed of roses is another man's honeysuckle.Don and Maryann argue over something that should have been talked about before they were married. A pregnant woman daydreams about days gone by. Jeffery...

She always stays at a respectful distance from men. She doesn't want to be tainted with any relationship. She pretends that she likes women and shares a room with female friends. She was forced to marry by her mother, and in an accident, she had a date with a president of the group company. The president pressed her step by step and finally forced her into the civil affairs bureau to marry him... "I can only accept fake marriage, you can never touch...

From the bestselling author of The Shop Girls of Harpers and The Mulberry Lane Series. London, 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their lives are moving on at quite a pace. United by the suffragette cause and now living under one roof, some will find love and marriage whilst others experience heartache and tears. Harpers is the bond that holds them together, bringing strength through hardship...

A collection of sharp, sensory poems that build a narrative of love and marriage, migration and isolation.#8216;. . . Tonight marks a thousand dry nights and I wantto show you something. It's a little cavehollowed out by my thirst, a place for you to live.'In this powerful collection, Amy Leigh Wicks takes the reader on a literal journey from New York City to Wellington and Kaikoura, and on an emotional journey from youth into #8216;the dangerous...

Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn't get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes listeners from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is-and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved...

Her asshole boyfriend tricked her to the hotel and want to sell her to the rich. She ran away hastily and strayed into a man's room, then he took advantage of her.

She was designed by her dear husband to be sent to the bed of a powerful man! He was also "caught in bed" by his husband. Her heart was also broken, her husband was just like a beast with evil heart. He was in cahoots with his first love! And they show off their love all the time. He pressed hard on the marriage contract, but she fell into the enemy's hands step by step, finally she win in this game!

A revelatory examination of love, marriage, and the state of modern India traces the experiences of three different Mumbai couples whose realities are shaped by disparate views regarding independence, parenthood, gender roles, and religion.

With over 2.5 million copies sold since its release in 1976, The Act of Marriage has helped Christian couples around the world discover new joy and sexual fulfillment in marriage. This new edition expands on topics previously only touched on and includes updates on the latest findings in medicine and social science. It offers biblical principles, goals, guidelines, and charts to help couples enrich their physical relationship.