Chapter Two: A Wife Needs A Woman: Verna N. is twenty-eight years old. Her husband, Norm, is thirty. They have been married for six years. A lawyer, Norm is a junior partner in a successful New York law firm. Vera, for the past three years, has worked as a registered nurse, feeling a need for better utilization of her time. This, then, is Vera's story: "I can remember back to the time when I was in junior high school. My body had started developing and I found myself looking at the other girls, comparing myself to them. I especially used to love gym, because we would all have to go into the locker room and undress into shorts and a blouse. I would take my time, watching them as they stripped down. I can remember feeling funny whenever the girl next to me would take off her bra. Her body

