{"product_id":"what-marriage-costs-us-9798233789793","title":"What Marriage Costs Us","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Timothée Luwewe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Timothee Luwewe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Timothee Luwewe\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Marriage \u0026amp; Long Term Relationships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Marriage Costs Us\u003c\/em\u003e is a clear-eyed examination of one of the most powerful institutions in modern life-and the quiet toll it takes on those who enter it. Rather than arguing for or against marriage, Timoth�e Luwewe interrogates what marriage demands in return for its promises of stability, legitimacy, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on cultural analysis, gender theory, lived experience, and contemporary social realities, the book explores marriage as a system shaped by law, economics, visibility, and moral expectation. Luwewe shows how intimacy is altered when it becomes contractual, performative, and publicly evaluated-and how sacrifice is often normalized as virtue rather than recognized as cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross its chapters, the book examines: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow marriage reframes love as achievement and failure as personal inadequacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe erosion of self that often accompanies long-term compromise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe unequal burden of emotional labor and care\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe economic structures that make leaving harder than staying\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe pressure to perform happiness in a culture of constant observation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe role of law, children, and moral narratives in sustaining unhappy unions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy exit carries such heavy social and psychological penalties\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd what remains-identity, trust, possibility-after marriage ends or transforms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving from private relationships to public culture, from ordinary households to branded intimacy, \u003cem\u003eWhat Marriage Costs Us\u003c\/em\u003e situates marriage not as a purely personal choice but as a deeply social one. It asks readers to consider not whether marriage is good or bad, but whether it is entered with clarity rather than illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in a sharp, restrained, and compassionate voice, this book speaks to those who are married, considering marriage, leaving it, or rethinking commitment altogether. It offers language for experiences often lived in silence-and insists that the costs of marriage should never come as a surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarriage is neither salvation nor sentence. But it is never free.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timothee Luwewe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47571347406999,"sku":"9798233789793","price":1504.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798233789793.webp?v=1774886998","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/what-marriage-costs-us-9798233789793","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}