Complex sentence: In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir and declines a job in Robert's firm.
Split into simpler sentences: In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart. The matter comes to a head during Christmas, when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir and declines a job in Robert's firm.