Back Then
“Each of us was the younger sibling in a family of two same-sex offspring, and younger siblings, he said, being as a rule demanding, dependent, and self-centered from infancy on, proved unable to meet the needs of similarly disadvantaged partners in marriage. We had heard that more than one of every three American marriages ended in divorce, and that was bad enough. But this prognosis, supported, the psychologist said, by statistical evidence gathered in his researches at Brandeis, appeared to b...e as dire as if he had identified in us a rare blood disease. The 1950s was “the age of psychology,” according to a series of articles in Life, a time when the mind and behavioral sciences, as popularly understood, had an almost scriptural weight. We listened politely and even respectfully as he handed down his verdict, accepted his sardonic, slightly Vienna-accented good wishes, and went on our way to what he believed was certain disaster.
We had met in the fall of 1953, saw each other almost exclusively during the winter, became engaged in the spring, and married in July; in September we went to Italy and England on our honeymoon.MoreLess
We had met in the fall of 1953, saw each other almost exclusively during the winter, became engaged in the spring, and married in July; in September we went to Italy and England on our honeymoon.MoreLess
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