Not exact matches
Set mostly in 1962 at an inn in seaside Dorset, where graduate student Edward and violinist Florence, barely in their twenties, have come for their honeymoon, McEwan's book sketches the fear and loathing the two experience around sexual consummation, each of them carrying
enough specific
emotional baggage and general social repression to turn their wedding night into a site of irrevocable trauma.
What is left are classes with up to and over 50 % combined ELL / Special Ed, students with abilities (at high school) from K - 12 +, many students with outrageous behaviors and
emotional baggage, many who haven't passed a class in years but were pushed on due to age, and a few here and there who you hope you can give
enough to in order to legitimately prepare them for college.
Couples often bring
emotional baggage into a marriage, which is difficult
enough to deal with.
First time marriage can be difficult
enough, but add children and relatives from your former marriage with possible legal issues and
emotional baggage from the past and «complicated» seems to be an understatement.