TV writer Georgie has made a decision that just might be
the end of her troubled marriage — and then she discovers a way to get through to the man she married.
Not exact matches
The
marriage was in
trouble — undermined by the pressures
of academic life and a failed course
of fertility treatments — and it
ended soon afterward.
But Sally's
marriage to Roy (Josh Brolin) is in its own
trouble; he's a novelist who hasn't been able to live up to the promise
of his first book, and isn't doing much in the way
of providing for their future, so she
ends up going back into the workforce as the assistant to Greg (Antonio Banderas), a handsome gallery owner.
The rest
of the movie alternates present - tense scenes
of Arthur struggling to keep Takumi alive — gradually regaining his own will to live in the process, as the rules
of dramaturgy demand — with flashbacks to Arthur's
troubled marriage to Joan (Naomi Watts), revealing the tragic series
of events that made him decide to
end it all.
Somehow, she always manages to turn the tables on him during their conferences so that they
end up discussing his
troubled marriage instead
of planning her defense strategy.
10 The postwar New York world was a different place from the one in which Saalburg had come
of age: the ascendancy
of abstract expressionism and the implied obsolescence
of his own interests and preferences may have
troubled him, and his life had undergone traumatic change: his
marriage had
ended, and he had suffered the death
of his only child.
A
troubled marriage doesn't spell the
end of your relationship.
Many divorced individuals report having experienced feelings
of disbelief upon realizing the
marriage was
ending and reported
trouble accepting it.
And since half
of marriages end in divorce it's likely that most
of the couples in Newport Beach are also having
trouble.
The
trouble with divorce parties is that they focus on an emotional response to the
end of a
marriage and suggest that throwing a party is the path to healing — the key to moving on regardless
of whether the individual is emotionally ready for that step.