Show KATHLEEN NORRIS the rich boy wants adventure I 1 MARRIED writes W elleen eileen johnson from princeton 1 I seemed to myself and to everyone else one of tho the luckiest gi girls r Is in the world bucky had come come to tho the small california college town where I 1 lived with a big car a big income and a big name behind him it was uka like a dream to have him fall in love with me my father was dead I 1 am an only child mother and I 1 came to the philadelphia suburb where the johnsons lived and bucky and I 1 were married in circumstances cum curn stances of such beamut beauty and luxury as are every girls ideal ills his people were wonderful to me their wedding gift among other things aings the tree shaded home in which I 1 am writing even from rom the beginning 1 I knew bucky was spoiled and sometimes selfish but mother had warned me it might be that way and I 1 had much to make me happy he loved me ho he really did love me then and in a few years we had two little boys to raise our sons are now 4 and 2 bucky has never made any especial fuss over them but his M other mother and father and everyone else were so delighted that I 1 guess fl 1 I notice bucky much I 1 thought he was as happy as I 1 was never was happy but he he says noK now he never was waa happy with me and he puzzles me and hurts me b by yow asking if hi he Is supposed kup posed from now on to be satisfied to sit around and usten listen to people praising the children ile he Is terribly restless wants to travel then wants togo to go west and buy a camp then wants to get into hollywood somehow buy a picture or vork in a studio he picks queer 1 lie to really du did love pis ms 11 friends invests money in their schemes goes off sometimes for three or four days at a time ile he does not drink but he be goes to dances and races and dinner places sad and joins up with various groups he Is very popular meanwhile I 1 am alone we have been married six years ducky buchy Is 31 1 am 27 that Is young itt it but our marriage seems to have gone dead sucky bucky is just plain bored by me and our home and our cur chIl children drea no plans nor suggestions of mine make any impression lie he says he wants to bo be free ills mother always has been lovely to me but she feels sympathetic to him too and tells me I 1 must make more of an effort to interest him that he has always been a difficult boy to amuse that I 1 must change myself and try to rise to his level and be a real companion to him and of course that is what I 1 want to io do but I 1 feel so dl di scour aged and sad all the time that I 1 cant even start lie he truly want me and I 1 cant start all over again to make him love me so my life seems already wrecked and although I 1 am still young and pretty and have a rich husband and two adorable children with a third chud child on the way I 1 sem to have noting at all what shall hall I 1 dol bov this troubled young wife has run into a very vary usual situation A boy raised as bucky has been raised really does not have much appetite for the somewhat humdrum ufa ol of a husband and father just a college boy I 1 say humdrum but of course life with a young wife a new horn home e a nursery full ol of children with plans and hopes and joys and anxieties sli shared ared humdrum at all only bucky developed enough to see it that way his viewpoint Is 13 still that of the tha college boy he was when elleen eileen met him ho he wants change adventure now naw faces he wants t to take chances on trips and friend ships and races and gaming tables and theatrical ventures I 1 to sacr sacrifice Ulce one moment of his hunt for excitement to the demands of small children the claims of a wife absorbed in the tremendous business of motherhood seems to him not only tame but absolutely insufferable lie lie feels trapped and if his old friends his parents praise his bis wife and rejoice in his hb increasing amily amaly that only makes him angrier all over america young men situated as bucky is in are doing what he wants to do they are walking out on the only things that will make ute life worth while in the middle years and the years after that long years and they come fast years when the love of wife home family seem to the men who have destroyed them to be miracles seem like a prom ased land out of which they have voluntarily shut themselves bucky may be able abia to force you to diforca him elleen eileen his wealth may make tilts this possible you may have to raise those children without their father when you married a rich bo boy you yan that risk |