Sir, – Michael Harding’s observation (Life, April 26th) that marriage is when each one becomes the custodian of the other’s dreams is quite true, but in today’s Ireland, where many marriages are second and third time around the block affairs, it can be quite different.
Often these marriages are when each one becomes the custodian of the other’s nightmare offspring.
It brings to mind a joke my parents shared long ago, about an American couple, where she shouts out to the hubby, “Come in Harry and fix it, your kids and my kids are beating up on our kids.” How times have changed and life has got more complicated. Perhaps the joke is on us now. – Yours, etc,
BOBBY CARTY,
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