Show kathleen norris says the Pro problem blent of sally kent den syndicate anu ca aw so 11 palk a suitcase with comfortable clothes and a box with provisions and put them in the old car then say to hirn him got get in in were ivere going places and head west vest by KATHL KATHLEEN EEN NORRIS gg fy Y HUSBAND has M come home so i V 1 changed after tw two 0 years in active service its as a marine writes sally ke kent nt that I 1 find myself for the first time in my life with a problem that is too difficult for me to solve I 1 wonder if other women are facing like troubles now that the war is over and if you have helped them tand and c can a n help me 1 I am 31 the letter goes on david is two years C old er he was drafted in 1942 and left me with girl of three and another baby coming we were both anxious that he should do his share as a soldier and I 1 tried to do mine at home we moved to my mothers house and there my son was born just two years ago mother keeps boarders I 1 had helped her all through my girlhood and took my old place now planning meals ma marketing rk eting making beds and superintending super intending the changing personnel in the kitchen mother has always prospered pr red and in crowded war times she prospered exceedingly my weekly budget to david a few lines anyway anyta Y every day and an often dotten pages were always cheerful and snapshots of dl ind and jimmy kept him in touch with their progress this was for me as for many wives a lonely time a time with anxious moments but a time of much deep happiness too mothers life has never been easy she found this interval refreshing and delightful and the children were wonderful dislikes boardinghouse boarding house i david came home willing wiffing to accept e all this but within a fe few w days I 1 knew something was wrong and now even everything Y thing is wrong he like living in a boardinghouse boarding house he thinks diana is badly spoiled and he seems completely indifferent rent to the baby of course the children did not know him and when a dark thin nervous daddy was added to their little scheme they like it 1 I tr try to make allowances for the war worn nerves of a man who has known nothing of home life for more than two years I 1 try to keep things serene and cheerful and of course it is understood that as soon as he resumes work and is able to support it we will have our own home again but this is not enough he wants me to leave the children and go away with him where seem to mattor matter he wants to go west to buy a farm to pioneer in the canadian north to do anything except settle down here realize how lucky he ha is to have a comfortable home no immediate financial pressure and a devoted wife obviously this is just what I 1 cant do id like a change myself im m not in love with bedman ing and lusting but you cant plan pioneer e er with ith two wo small email children as companions and financially any such change would be a dei desperate chance we love each other there my triangle complication when we take long walks together as we do in the evenings there any rolling or unpleasantness but it all comes out to this david want sime 10 a throw away the security I 1 have built up so painfully and slowly in all these long months I 1 want him to return to normal he Is certainly not normal now please advise a woman anxious to save her marriage and the man the she loves it if the can my advice sally Is compromise IN he like boarding housch we american women will have to do a lot of c compromising promising if we are to help our re returning X arping servicemen to readjust re adjust themselves to conditions that seem strangely smug safe self beu satisfied to them after the horrors and loneliness and abnormality of war head west in car get someone to look after your babies no matter what you have to pay her pack a suitcase with comfortable for table clothes and a box with provisions and put them in the old car then say to him get in we are going places and head west years ago a fier nervous husband I 1 knew got this treatment my own husband in fact and before we had gone a hundred alleq mile he was beginning the cure quiet amused expectant happy we drove miles the most inexpensive travelling tra velling 9 there is except on foot the most thrilling for you may stop anywhere eat when you like try anything find your old companion beside you sooner than you dream Is possible you find him rested reste d soothed and presently eager and alert again talk plans explain away difficulties share problems agree that diana is a little spoiled that there is no place for a young cou couple ale like their own home say the baby is exactly me like his dad give him a six weeks break give yourself the same november Is beautiful travelling tra velling we weather ather and a marriage like yours is worth saving |