"Even if she does sprinkle her petunia bed in a bikini... 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife' -- or his Lincoln Continental! Modern marriage was a series of unpaid bills and disappointments. Sometimes a man preferred his own... sometimes his neighbor's wife. Or he bought gadgets he couldn't afford, from garbage disposals to reducing machines. Spending sprees and a free-wheeling sex code had replaced discretion. And only an act of primitive violence warned it was time to trade-in easy mortgages for more wholesome marriages." --