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True to You in My Fashion:
A Woman Talks to Men about Marriage

Toronto: New Press, 1971

A practicing clergyman finds it impossible to remain faithful to his wife, though he’s devoted to her. A physician is amazed at the amount of female infidelity his patients confide in him; he considers his own marriage odd “because I’m happy.” A homosexual describes his “marriage” with another man, and the harmony of the relationship might be the envy of many a husband and wife. A young man living in a commune is against monogamy on principle. And a retired man who has been happily married for fifty-six years states that “the two most beautiful things in the world are ladies and horses.”

These are five of the people you will meet in the pages of True to You in My Fashion, where thirteen men speak their minds to Adrienne Clarkson. The men come from all walks of life and their ages range from nineteen to eighty-two; but they have in common an unembarrassed honesty as they discuss the successes and failures, delights and compromises of their marriages and love affairs. In their different ways they describe what they like in their wives and what they dislike; how marriages that begin well can swiftly go on the rocks; the importance of an affair to a husband; the secrets of keeping a marriage going; and the influence of children and career.

True to You in My Fashion enriches our awareness of the complexities of marriage. Whether you are male of female, married or not, you will recognize yourself more than once in these pages.