Alistair Knox
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Alistair Knox
FROM ROLE MATE TO SOUL MATE For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I—survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II—a self-fulfillment focus. In Stage I, most couples were role mates: the woman raised the children and the man raised the money. In Stage II, couples increasingly desired to be soul mat
... See moreAfter fifteen years of marriage and three growing kids, Sara is full of resentment from years of harsh words and perceived betrayals, while Alan can’t see the problem and wants to continue on together indefinitely.
The first month we spent in the house, my grandfather would walk straight in every day without knocking. After a month, he settled for the cellar. We sat in the kitchen and heard him go around down there, moving tools about. Later still, we saw him lurk on the path down the hill, watching the house from afar. He stopped a little further up the hill
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