Love’s Just Full of Surprises

by Skye Moody

Liv Fun: Vol 3 – Issue 2

It’s a love adventure like no other, and it’s spelled D-I-V-O-R-C-E. After 30 years of marriage, Lynn and Matt Harlow decide to call it quits. To family and close friends, including me, the news drops like a mega-bomb, its devastation all the greater because Matt and Lynn Harlow have for decades represented the miracle of sustained romantic love, while all along they were keeping its dying embers a closely guarded secret. Even their only child, Andy, hadn’t a clue his parents were drifting apart.

I’m on the outside — a close friend to both Matt and Lynn — and view them as the ideal match. In the U.S., nearly 50% of first-time married couples divorce, but those divorces usually occur between the seventh and eighth years of tying the (Gordian?) knot. Matt and Lynn’s knot survives more than three times that long and only begins to unravel over the past few years as Matt experiences a serious stroke; Lynn, older than Matt by 10 years, enters menopause; and son, Andy, grows up and goes away to college.

Presto Change-o: With Andy now on his own, Lynn and Matt take time to test the deep waters of their one-to-one bond. While they seek counseling and work hard to repair their benumbed relationship, they tell no one outside their professional counselors that they are suffering through a dreadful ennui only foundering lovers understand.

Susan Brown, coauthor of The Gray Divorce Revolution (Brown & Lin, 2012), has found that, between ages 55 and 64, the national divorce rate has more than doubled in the past 25 years, from five to 11 per thousand marriages. Over age 65, however, the percentage of divorce nearly triples, from two to five per thousand marriages. What’s going on here, Wizened Owls?

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Liv Fun

by Leisure Care
Summer 2014
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Love’s Just Full of Surprises
by Skye Moody

It’s a love adventure like no other, and it’s spelled D-I-V-O-R-C-E. After 30 years of marriage, Lynn and Matt Harlow decide to call it quits. To family and close friends, including me, the news drops like a mega-bomb, its devastation all the greater because Matt and Lynn Harlow have for decades represented the miracle of sustained romantic love, while all along they were keeping its dying embers a closely guarded secret.
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