Affairs are a prevalent and inescapable fact of life. Marriage is difficult and monogamy is even tougher. The isolation and conflicting demands that can come from maintaining a suburban life offer additional challenges. In this frank and intimate look at the lives of 26 women from varying cultural, professional and personal backgrounds, Gertler and Lopez find the common desire for passion, intimacy and conversation and the varying ways in which women who are not getting them go about changing that situation.