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Who was helping whom in here?

posted 11 years ago by Victover
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Was Laura helping Tom, quite the opposite or exactly the same?
It't was obvious to me that inasmuch Tom was in some sort of a thing, Laura herself was pretty much trapped in a childless, loveless, sexless marriage with very little to expect from a blank future. Her husband with an established and growing interest in chumming around with his young athletic gang; her own self shaken by powerful romantic memories stirred up by a handsome and equally romantic young man close enuff too her her to make her drink from the fountain of youth and love to the point of realizing there was nothing else to be had or expected from a dead relationship and a jockstrap for a husband... When she said that the most difficult thing to save was her marriage she knew she had to get out of there.
Too bad we never knew what she ended up doing with her life but a lot of mental peace could be read from her last letter

nothing else to say here

[–] first-things-first 11 years ago

Peace and acceptance of the truth. She couldn't pretend anymore and that destroyed her marriage. I hoped that she would have told him more clearly how she felt but not cross the line. She would have left her husband because she no longer wanted to love him. The husband kept saying that she was choosing Tom over him. But failed to see he was choosing a male centered life over her. They both loved the wrong people. Only she did something about he. The husband was left paralyzed, an inability to seek what he wanted now that he had a chance. May be afraid of what people would see without a wife to protect him.

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[–] KrazeeforKittiez 9 years ago

May be afraid of what people would see without a wife to protect him.

Right....I noticed that he was sitting alone listening to classical music at the end which is one of the things that some people eyed with suspicion when the young man did it.

I felt like the husband was afraid of showing his softer side, so that was why he acted so macho. He was possibly gay and in denial and that would explain why he was not intimate with his wife.

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