Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage Book

	Introduction
I	Me, Myself, and I
	Excuse Me While I Explode: My Mother, Myself, My Anger	3
	Getting the Milk for Free	15
	Crossing to Safety	23
	Moving In. Moving Out. Moving On	35
	Papa Don't Preach	45
	Memoirs of an Ex-Bride: Looking Back. Looking Ahead	53
II	For Better and Worse
	I Do. Not.: Why I Won't Marry	65
	Killing the Puritan Within	73
	Houseguest Hell: My Home Is Not Your Home	85
	A Man in the Heart	91
	Why I Hate That My Mother Was Right (Well ... About Most Things): Turning into Elizabeth Taylor	101
	How We Became Strangers	111
	Erotics 102: Staying Bad. Staying Married	123
	My Marriage. My Affairs	133
III	Mommy Maddest
	My Mother's Ring: Caught Between Two Families	147
	Attila the Honey I'm Home	159
	The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was	171
	Daddy Dearest: What Happens When He Does More than His Half?	181
	Crossing the Line in the Sand: How Mad Can Mother Get?	193
	Maternal Bitch	205
	The Origin, Procreation, and Hopes of an Angry Feminist	217
IV	Look at Me Now
	Married at 46: The Agony and the Ecstasy	227
	The Fat Lady Sings	239
	The Middle Way: Learning to Balance Family and Work	249
	What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge	257
	The Perfect Equality of Our Separate Chosen Paths: Becoming a Mother. Or Not	265
	Contributors	277
	Acknowledgments	281