And yet as we all know, this kind of crap is happening more and more often. People have become disposable. If you throw one a way, a new one comes along. And when you get bored, you can throw that one away as well, and get a newer model.
I just don’t know anymore. What happened to the days when people fought to stay married, to work the issues out? Even if the fighting isn’t successful, at least you TRIED.
Yep. I recall an interview I saw on CBS Sunday Morning last year. The person being interviewed was some prominent-for-decades broadway lyricist or something who, as it turns out, had recently lost his gay partner of sixty-one years(!)
The interviewer gave his condolences and then asked their longevity secret. Octegenarian Lyricist looked at the interviewer like he had two heads and said incredulously, "We never gave up on each other! People now give up on each other way too easily, way too often. It's what they do."
I quoted this to at-the-time STBX and asked her, "Is that what we're about to do here? Give up on each other?! Not me. I will not." Unfortunately she listened with her then all-to-common dead eyes and disdainful face. She decided on D 5 days later.
As I say ad nauseam: Vows = "I am the one person who will never give up on you!" (sigh)
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac
