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school English teacher married to Bob,
an introverted law school dean who
spends his days fund-raising, then collapses
when he gets home. Sarah cried
tears of frustration and loneliness as
she told me about her marriage.
“When he’s on the job, he’s amazingly
engaging,” she said. “Everyone
tells me that he’s so funny and I’m so
lucky to be married to him. And I want
to throttle them. Every night, as soon as
we’re done eating, he jumps up and
cleans the kitchen. Then he wants to
read the paper alone and work on his
photography by himself. At around
nine, he comes into the bedroom and
wants to watch TV and be with me. But
he’s not really with me even then. He
wants me to lay my head on his
shoulder while we stare at the TV. It’s a
grownup version of parallel play.”
Sarah is trying to convince Bob to make
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