There Are Places We Can Return...

Again I want to apologize for my comment, I agree that society has done this to so many young people female and male alike and more so with females teaching constantly that sex is a dirty horrible thing only done to create children for god and so forth and all that BS. Also society teaches the young man to conquer the young female and those who give in are treated like jezebels and what not. I guess, I need to wait to see where this path will lead us, it just gets to me her whiny attitude, I have always felt badly for Lureen and Alma and any other women or man who is caught in a relationship with a homosexual. I came close to doing this myself to prove to the world that I am normal and what not. The sad part is so many gay people who do marry like this usually marry their best friend of the opposite sex and than hurt them by lying and not telling the truth about their desires. It is horrible to live this lie and to hurt those you truly care about. I do believe that Ennis cared about Alma and Jack cared about Lureen but they just did not love them the way society dictates them to do so. So those two poor women lived a half life since the men they were with were never really their loves. In the story Alma was smart and got out at least she hated Ennis and really did love him but knew it was not working out for them and was strong enough to pull out and meet Monroe and move on with her life although I think she liked Monroe she really loved Ennis. So I picture her as actually stronger than Lureen. I think Lureen wanted a trophy husband the good looking smooth talker she got but was never very happy but it was unheard of to her to give up on her smooth talking good looking husband so she stayed in a loveless relationship until he died. So I always pictured Alma as the stronger of the two wives since she had enough gumption to finally call it quits and try and find something better for her in the long run of things. I never pictured her as weak and tormented. So I guess this is more my problem seeing he whining away about life. But, in your story we still do not know what caused them to divorce and that I will wait for. Joe