Lynn appears to have insisted that if she said that her dalliance with Rod while she was still married to Doug was totally innocent, people should just accept that.
That particular reference comes from The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston with this story:
Baby Aaron arrived on April 11, 1973. He was born into a world of turmoil. Both Doug and Lynn’s parents lived on the West Coast, so they didn’t really have any support or anyone to help guide them through the murky waters of early parenthood. Lynn tried to find consistent freelance work, while learning to be a mother and maintaining a household on her own. Despite his promise, Doug was drinking heavily and spending many unexplainable nights away from home. Six months after Aaron was born, Doug moved in with a woman he’d been secretly seeing for some time.
I was relieved, actually. In my mind, I had left him many times. To be separated was something for which I was mentally prepared…or so I thought. I fell apart. I lay on my bed wondering how I could cope. I needed someone who would comfort but not coddle me, someone who would pick me up, set me down, and get me straightened around. I called Marjorie Baskin.
She came to my house immediately, kicked off her boots, lay down on my couch, and said, “You think you’ve got problems! Try living with a rabbi! [Her husband, Rabbi Bernard Baskin, has been a dear friend to me, too.] I can’t even go to a coffee shop with one of my male colleagues without someone calling my husband!” She made me laugh. Then she told me to make a plan for each day - don’t focus on the future, just take it day by day. The deal was I wouldn’t criticize her and she wouldn’t criticize me… we’d leave criticism to relatives!
The story with Marjorie Baskin was shocking to me when I first read it. Marjorie’s response to Lynn about Doug leaving was to tell a story about how she could not go out with a male friend without someone calling her rabbi husband. Why would that story be a response to Lynn about Doug leaving to move in with another woman? It wouldn’t. It is the kind of story you would tell a woman whose husband was called by someone reporting that they had seen you out with another guy, presumably Rod.
Lynn appears to have insisted that if she said that her dalliance with Rod while she was still married to Doug was totally innocent, people should just accept that.
That particular reference comes from The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston with this story:
Baby Aaron arrived on April 11, 1973. He was born into a world of turmoil. Both Doug and Lynn’s parents lived on the West Coast, so they didn’t really have any support or anyone to help guide them through the murky waters of early parenthood. Lynn tried to find consistent freelance work, while learning to be a mother and maintaining a household on her own. Despite his promise, Doug was drinking heavily and spending many unexplainable nights away from home. Six months after Aaron was born, Doug moved in with a woman he’d been secretly seeing for some time.
I was relieved, actually. In my mind, I had left him many times. To be separated was something for which I was mentally prepared…or so I thought. I fell apart. I lay on my bed wondering how I could cope. I needed someone who would comfort but not coddle me, someone who would pick me up, set me down, and get me straightened around. I called Marjorie Baskin.
She came to my house immediately, kicked off her boots, lay down on my couch, and said, “You think you’ve got problems! Try living with a rabbi! [Her husband, Rabbi Bernard Baskin, has been a dear friend to me, too.] I can’t even go to a coffee shop with one of my male colleagues without someone calling my husband!” She made me laugh. Then she told me to make a plan for each day - don’t focus on the future, just take it day by day. The deal was I wouldn’t criticize her and she wouldn’t criticize me… we’d leave criticism to relatives!
The story with Marjorie Baskin was shocking to me when I first read it. Marjorie’s response to Lynn about Doug leaving was to tell a story about how she could not go out with a male friend without someone calling her rabbi husband. Why would that story be a response to Lynn about Doug leaving to move in with another woman? It wouldn’t. It is the kind of story you would tell a woman whose husband was called by someone reporting that they had seen you out with another guy, presumably Rod.
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that "Baby {Name}" thing always makes me roll my eyes.
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That and "arrived," like he was a tourist flying in from another country or an Amazon package.
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Same.
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