[MD] until death do us part

[John Carl]

Well I'll take a non-intellectual stab at your question, Marsha.  One of my
favorite old couples in literature was Albert Durham and Hallie Ryder from a
book I can't rememer the name of right now, about a coyote named Brand X.

Anyway, they were childhood sweethearts who'd grown up next door to one
another in a small town in Kansas, got married and had an only son who got
killed in WWII.  So they pulled up stakes, Albert sold his painting
business, and they moved to an old mine in Arizona with a spring where every
evening, all the animals would come and gather, and that was pretty much
their social life.

There was an old cabin on the claim, that appealed to Albert's spartan
tastes, whereas Hallie prefered the neat little travel trailer with
everything in its place, so they basically moved apart and avoided conflict
and thus in their old age, reverted back to their childhood pattern of being
next door neighbors.

Their story always appealed to me, resonated with something that seems
right, that marriage doesn't have to follow any particular pattern to have
value.  So Al and Tipper grew apart?  So what?  I think that's perfectly
natural and right.  Nobody said we have to turn into carbon copies of each
other for the rest our lives, just because we partner up for raising kids
and supporting one another.  What I don't get is why they have to divorce.
 I mean, what's that about?  The only reason they'd need to divorce is cuz
somebody wants to what?  Get remarried and have more kids?  Find true love?
 Silly thing for an old fart to be chasing at this stage of his life.  Poor
Al.  Hollywood musta gone to his head.


John the anti-romantic


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:30 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> All the buzz on the radio, because of Tipper and Al Gore, is whether the
> institution of marriage
> is falling apart.   Because of the expanded longevity, can two people be
> expected to commit
> 'until death do us part'?  Fifty years with one man, or woman?  That is a
> long time?  With the
> divorce rate above 50%, should this social pattern survive, change,
> dissolve?
>
>  What say you intellectuals about this social static pattern of value?
>
>
> Marsha
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