ABSTRACT
The affective dilemmas of career men and women have become even more complicated. Proof of the experienced stresses and strains is the appearance of a new pattern of intimate relationships that seems to be structurally better adapted: middle—aged women entering into love relationships, in the form of marriage or living together with younger men. The social and psychological changes have taken place in men's and women's lives, women feel freer to opt for absorbing, fulfilling careers with less guilt and discomfort. The popular psychology books in the United States that give advice to women for successful love relationships have in different ways dealt with the affective dilemmas of women seriously involves in the careers, as well as in the own psychological growth and development. The dilemma is even more difficult when the woman's career requires considerable traveling and sojourns in far away places.
