| It was no trivial task, she saw, to face Jeff's wife and drag her back to wifehood. |
| She has one polar-opposite, control-freak sister who's militantly committed to wifehood and motherhood and wears unflattering tracksuits. |
| Teddy faced so much alone and bent contemporary rules of womanhood and wifehood along the way. |
| Then it occurred to her, for the first time in her wifehood, to think what she would do if he were lost. |
| It works at the same time to bring to expression a female eroticism not tied to a biographical trajectory of wifehood and motherhood. |
| She feels trapped by wifehood and motherhood, and she feels she's a failure at them both. |
