I am so looking forward to Meg Wolitzer's new book due out next month. If it is half as familiar to my cohort as Ten Year Nap, it will be a great read. The economy and job market have had such a debilitating effect on so many of my friend's marriages. What may have been a normal settling in of the spouses where they agreed to disagree on topics like sex, communication, grandchildren, has morphed into a worrisome battleground of who spends too much and what maintenance (physical, house, car, spiritual) gets shelved for the time being. For the most part, noone is leaving anyone, but the level of discomfort is growing and painful.