Chapter 6, Part 2 - Between One Another - 2 Summary and Analysis

Chapter four, titled Sluts in Love, says "...there is no question that being called a slut within a committed relationship has some special challenges," (p. 153). The chapter begins with the first subheading, The Accidental Couple. Here, the authors discuss various ways that two people may unexpectedly or accidentally become a couple. The mistake is simply that what one person saw coming, maybe someone else didn't, as in the case of a woman who planned on being housemates with an opposite sex friend and ended up spending fifteen years with him. This was probably an error based on gender difference. She may not have realized the only reason he said yes to this was because he was sexually interested in her. Either it was that, or she was just 'in...