Breaking Up

The Husband emailed me today that Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm In The Middle) & Bradley Whitford (West Wing) have filed for divorce after 17 years of marriage. They seemed like the perfect Hollywood couple to me, living in a fairly modest house in Hancock Park that they did work on themselves. Bright & talented, funny & cool. It gives me pause that 3 couples that we palled around with in the new century have broken up. Our BBFs- D & T, married friends of ours for 28+ years, are calling it quits. The Husband & I hit a very rough patch about two years ago & I wondered if our marriage could survive (doing much better indeed). I loved the Joe Jackson album Night & Day from 1982. It was the soundtrack for my life that year. This song still gets to me in a very raw way... it did in 1982 & it does in 2009.

Breaking Us in Two
Don't you feel like trying something new?
Don't you feel like breaking out of breaking us in two?
You don't do the things that I do
You want to do things I can't do
Always something breaking us in two
You & I could never live alone
But don't you feel like breaking out just one day on your own?
Why does what I'm saying hurt you?
I didn't say that we were through
Always something breaking us in two
They say two hearts should beat as one for us
We'll fight it out to see it through
I say that won't be too much fun for us
Though it's oh so nice to get advice
It's oh so hard to do
Could we be much closer if we tried?
We could stay at home & stare into each other's eyes
Maybe we could last an hour
Maybe then we'd see right through
Always something breaking us in two