Marriage Has Changed
Yesterday’s blog was the result of reading ‘A Household Guide to Dying’ by Debra Adelaide where she talked about shirts. In one passage she talks of shirts being the reason given for a famous actor’s breakdown of her marriage.‘The symbol of the married woman’s unscripted yet unavoidable role in the relationship. No clause in the contract stipulating the care and maintenance of the make shirt yet somehow they took over, with their demands to be soaked, ironed, fresh and alert on hangers for the next excursion into working world. It took a stout feminist to withstand the onslaught of the … Continue reading