Dave, have you ever seen the movie "Shirley Valentine"? For the benefit of those who haven't, it's about a middle-aged British housewife who's grown dissatisfied with her life - her H doesn't pay attention to her any more, her daughter is grown, and then her friend offers her a trip to Greece. At first she doesn't thing she "should" go, but she does, and since her friend is having her own fun and ignoring her, she goes off by herself, meets a Greek man, has a brief affair, and ends up staying in Greece. Anyway, early in the movie she spends a lot of time talking to the camera about her marriage and her life, and one quote always stayed with me - she says of her H, "It's not that he's a BAD husband, he's just no bloody good!" Well, that was very much how I was feeling about W until very recently... I was identifying heavily with Shirley Valentine. Now, however, I no longer do. Not sure just where I'm going with this, but I now view this movie differently. It's a funny movie, but I doubt if I could watch it again without being somewhat sad for Shirley, because I think it would've been better if she could have found some resources like we have and worked at making her marriage work. Maybe it still wouldn't have worked out, who really knows, her H was pretty clueless, but there would have at least been a chance.
