The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships

Money. It affects us all, so why is it so difficult to discuss? Even as daily headlines broadcast ever more alarming news about the fate of the American economy, few people are willing to acknowledge the enormous impact that personal finance has on their private affairs. Until now.

In this compelling anthology of original essays, some of the country's most respected women writers reveal their deepest feelings about money and how it affects their most intimate relationships?with parents, children, spouses, siblings, and ultimately with themselves. They examine the childhood experiences that set up lifelong, and sometimes self-destructive, financial habits. And they divulge how all the intangibles?romance, status, power, security?become tangled up in their financial lives.

The essays in these pages are written from many different perspectives: a single woman trying to reconcile feminism with a secret desire to be supported by a man; a wife with radically different spending habits from her husband's; a divorcée who has become the family's chief breadwinner; a single mother struggling to make ends meet. They also explore complicated social issues. Sheri Holman (The Dress Lodger) reveals how she fell in love with a homeless drug addict. Leslie Bennetts (The Feminine Mistake) weighs the social and emotional costs of giving her children a private-school education among the super-rich. Bliss Broyard (One Drop) ruminates on the intricacies of maintaining friendships with wealthier friends. And Amy Cohen (The Late Bloomer's Revolution) considers the price?financial and otherwise?of having a child on her own.

Witty, nuanced, and startlingly intimate, The Secret Currency of Love offers a transformative look at the delicate nature of love and money. This riveting collection will spark debate by inspiring readers to reexamine their own emotional connection to their finances. As Americans struggle to make rational choices in a frightening economy, these brave, revealing essays by some of today's most esteemed writers provide insight into how a modern generation of women is defining itself in the new social economy.

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-02-2009; On The Money; Money affects all our relationships, sometimes in a good way, many times not. Do you have wealthy a friend who is expected to treat when you go out? Or a man with no job, but you don't care, you'll support him? Did your man leave you to...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-25-2009; Material and Not-So-Material Girls on The Ways Money and Love Intersect; The Secret Currency of Love how money and love are connected, and how they're not, and the ways we treat money, our own and others. It certainly will cause readers to reflect on how they treat their own money, whether that's how they...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-21-2009; Secret Currency of Love; This book was such a surprise - and a great one! I laughed, I cried and I think I saw my life flash before my eyes. This book really begins a conversation on the taboo subject of money that is an important one to have - especially now...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-19-2009; Strikes several chords with me...; I just finished this book and would recommend it with the caveat that it is a collection of essays, rather than any kind of empirical study of women, relationships, and money. It is a fine collection that I enjoyed a great deal. It was...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-02-2009; On The Money; Money affects all our relationships, sometimes in a good way, many times not. Do you have wealthy a friend who is expected to treat when you go out? Or a man with no job, but you don't care, you'll support him? Did your man leave you to...; read full review | report as inappropriate