I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. Loveless marriage is a theme in many of your books, never more strongly so than in An Imaginative Experience . Yet most of your characters still seek an enduring romantic partnership. Working at it forever - with love and humor. We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago.
Divorce is easier. It was all very ponderous. Not being able to stand each other wasn't a reason. A lot of people stuck it out and were very unhappy. It's a very difficult subject.