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Article: Back to the cave, girls
- Article from:
- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- January 26, 2001
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You may well recognise your-self in what follows: it's about the
roles many men and women assume when they have been married for a
while. She nags, but that's because someone has to make the
decisions . He withdraws, but that's because his opinions garner
little respect. They don't really talk, let alone laugh, anymore.
Sex is a distant memory. The very stuff of the marriage counsellor's
office.
Meet Brenda Ferraro, a mother of four, three of them under the
age of six. She's used to calling the shots in her house. "I feel
like I am the mother of everyone," she says, " including my husband.
And I'm getting just a little sick of that. "
But Ferraro, 38, from California, is in the middle of a ...