Introduction Part I: Questioning Love, Marriage, & the Couple Chapter 1: Name-Calling Margaret D. Stetz Chapter 2: I Now Pronounce You.Whatever You Two Are Susan Ostrov Weisser Chapter 3: Reality TV, Wedding Fantasies, and Actual Reality Collide Sarah Tucker Jenkins Chapter 4: Not Drowning but Waving Beverley Stevens Chapter 5: Marriage Might Be Work, But It's a Cushy Desk Job Compared to Being Single Sara Eckel Chapter 6: Dancing in a Precarious World Ana Tager Chapter 7: My Father's Alzheimer's Romance Stephanie Golden Part II: Alternative Living Arrangements Chapter 8: Spelling Bee Love Mimi Schwartz Chapter 9: Happily Ever After . Helle Trap Friis Chapter 10: I Want You Here Always. I Can't Live Without You. Now, Please Go Home Jaime Teich and Chris Nellen Chapter 11: Our Big, Strange Long-Distance Romance Mindy Lewis Chapter 12: A Bicoastal Relationship Jon Bagdon Chapter 13: Hundred Mile Marriage Penelope Scambly Schott Chapter 14: Margaret Mead and the In Between D. D. Wood Chapter 15: A Ten-Year Odyssey Lisa Gioia-Acres Chapter 16: Our Pick-Me-Up-From-a-Colonoscopy List Leah Sherman Chapter 17: The Evolving Landscape of Platonic Marriages Pamela Pitman Brown Chapter 18: What We Gained and What We Lost: Politics, Partners, and Community Vicki Breitbart Part III: Alternative Loving Arrangements Chapter 19: The Golden Girls House: Building Our Own Queer Family Renee Romanowsky Chapter 20: Loving the Past, Loving the Present: Polyamory and the Space for Both Kelli S.
Dunham Chapter 21: This is My Grandmother's Non-Monogamy Crystal Byrd Farmer Chapter 22: No One Is Born Knowing:The Myth of Exclusivity Mari Carmen Diaz Piñar and E. Rafael Jacobs-Perez Chapter 23: The Bobby Pin Alex Alberto Chapter 24: Relationship Anarchy Tierney Senne Chapter 25: The Space Between Us Remains the Same (A Long-Lasting, Long-Distance Love Story Spanning Continents & Decades) Max Sharam Chapter 26: Fifth Transition Helen Boyd Chapter 27: Making Up the Rules as We Go Ariela E. Rosa Chapter 28: Highly Sexed: Stages of (Non)Monogamy and (Non)Authentic Living Paige Averett Chapter 29: Stunning Ronald E. Hellman Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors.