Story Telling
“What does marriage mean to you?” she asked. Savoring our plate of gourmet cheeses and a bottle of red wine on a lovely spring evening, three women pondered the question inspired by approaching June weddings. Each of us had enjoyed long-term relationships with men we loved. One had been committed to her sweetheart for decades. Another wed young and now delighted in the details of her son’s upcoming wedding. I was the third. Married over 25 years and a divorce lawyer even longer. The author of Divorce in Nebraska, divorced and now widowed, I allowed an uncharacteristic pause before I
