Modern Love - Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear - NYTimes.com
Modern Love - Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear - NYTimes.com
I had to post this because I found the author's story compelling and her attitude, not just refreshing but a bit radical. She stood her ground and refused to accept that her husband's mid-life crisis should automatically ring a death knell for her marriage and family stability....
In this day and age of '5 years is the new forever' - where we quickly tire of our spouses, our situations, jobs, kids - you name it - like we are suppose to be entertained by the choice WE make for ourselves...this woman's approach was courageous and I was a bit outraged that people were counseling her to 'dump him'.
What ever did happen to 'standing by your man'? Are we all just going to give up the ghost when our loved one is having a bad time?
As I myself struggle with my now raging hormones and the death knell of my own youth, which ends up making me afraid, upset, illogical and a bitch - stories like these give me hope - I only hope as well that my loving and gracious husband will put up with my moodiness, my life-changes and know that deep in my heart I love him with a fiercness I can almost never articulate through the clumsy medium of the spoken word.
I had to post this because I found the author's story compelling and her attitude, not just refreshing but a bit radical. She stood her ground and refused to accept that her husband's mid-life crisis should automatically ring a death knell for her marriage and family stability....
In this day and age of '5 years is the new forever' - where we quickly tire of our spouses, our situations, jobs, kids - you name it - like we are suppose to be entertained by the choice WE make for ourselves...this woman's approach was courageous and I was a bit outraged that people were counseling her to 'dump him'.
What ever did happen to 'standing by your man'? Are we all just going to give up the ghost when our loved one is having a bad time?
As I myself struggle with my now raging hormones and the death knell of my own youth, which ends up making me afraid, upset, illogical and a bitch - stories like these give me hope - I only hope as well that my loving and gracious husband will put up with my moodiness, my life-changes and know that deep in my heart I love him with a fiercness I can almost never articulate through the clumsy medium of the spoken word.
posted by Colette at 8:07 AM
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