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The Outsourced Self Chapter 3 Summary

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In chapter two of The Outsourced Self, it focused on marriage. The chapter was titled The Legend of the Lemon Tree because of the story between Trevor and Laura, a couple who had been married for a year but were reflecting on the process of getting married. Trevor and Laura hired a wedding planner named Chloe due to their lack of time. Laura had a best friend who lived in New York and a mother who lived in Missouri while Laura and Trevor lived in Los Angeles. Because of Laura and Trevor’s demanding jobs and the lack of people to help, they decided to hire the wedding planner and give her all the responsibilities of their wedding. Laura was pretty involved in the planning, but Trevor was not and Chloe was determined to get him more …show more content…

Therapy has become a norm in today’s society, so much so that there are online services providing different types of therapy for different situations and also for different types of people. Rachael and Roger was a remarried couple. They were the complete opposite, which made them clash. They had a therapist for their marriage and her name was Sophie. Rachael credits Sophie to keeping their marriage alive. Any time Roger and Rachael would fight, Roger would think to call Sophie and she would then help them through it. This happened anywhere from two times a week to once a month, depending on the situation. Roger was diagnosed with bone cancer and wanted to give up after three years of battling the illness. Rachael did not want this and Sophie helped Rachael to see that it was for the best. They were married for thirty-two years before Roger passed. Hochschild brings up the terms old world and new world. The old world is referred to a time decades ago where family and friends were the support system for the emotional, physical and mental needs. The new world if referred to as today, where we pay trained experts to be our support system for the needs (page 63). We are willing to pay strangers to do what we need, for example the man with the non-wife Internet ad. At the end of the chapter, Hochschild admits to looking for an outsourced caregiver for her aunt Elizabeth because no one else could do

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