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Love
Works Like This
Travels Through a Pregnant Year
(Paperback - 2003)
Career-driven
and independent-minded, Lauren Slater charts her progress
through the complex months leading up to, and through,
motherhood. Never less than candid, she begins with
the process of her decision to have a child. The cons
list is long and includes ‘less time for friends’,
‘less time for work’, ‘less money’
and ‘Prozac (I’m on it)’. The pros
had only one entry: ‘Learn a new kind of love.’
But what will that love look like?
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As a psychologist herself
and also one of the first people to take Prozac, Slater
brings in an unusual double point of view to bear on a familiar
story. Not only does she chronicle the conflicting advice
surrounding the use of Prozac and other antidepressants
during pregnancy, but also captures just what the experience
of pregnancy is like. --This text refers to the Paperback
edition.
'Is even the most clenched
heart capable of it?' Lauren Slater asks in this original
and eloquent book about love. Slater, career-orientated
and willfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey
and decision-making process in deciding to have a child.
She starts with a list of the pros and cons. The cons list
is long and includes 'less time for friends', 'less time
for work', 'less money' and 'Prozac (I'm on it)'. The pros
had only one entry: 'Learn a new kind of love.' But what
will that love look like?
Slater deals with many
issues that are universal yet controversial: how to reconcile
the needs of the self with the demands of others, how to
go from being a couple to being a threesome, and how to
adjust to losing control of one's carefully developed life,
a life mapped out and run according to a plan. Slater's
own complex biological and psychological history lies at
the core of this story. One of the first people to take
Prozac, she chronicles the conflicting advice regarding
its use during pregnancy and her eventual decision to stop
taking it for the first trimester. "Love Works Like
This" is more than the story of one woman's pregnancy.
It is a richly written book about falling in love, about
learning to be selfless, and about the courage required
to change one kind of happy life into another very different
one.
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