| The ramifications of divorce are taking on even | | | | for the first time in his life. |
| greater significance as we near 2010. The state of the | | | | Following further meetings, with both me and other |
| economy, home foreclosures, unemployment, and the | | | | group members, Hank began to gradually realize that |
| issue of health care for all, represent a myriad of | | | | his confusion, despair, and struggle with his depression |
| factors that influence the decision to keep a | | | | were more closely related to the realization that he |
| marital relationship intact, regardless of the mutual | | | | had no idea of the meaning of his life that went |
| suffering, or the decision to "call it quits". | | | | beyond a marital relationship. He began to feel that he |
| Though not a participant in one of my "decision" | | | | needed to explore other elements in his life such as his |
| workshops, at first, Hank sought assistance from me | | | | spiritual beliefs, personal passions related to unfulfilled |
| regarding the dilemma he was battling regarding his | | | | goals that he had disregarded, and the quest for |
| marriage. Married for twenty years, he came to the | | | | newer adventures. |
| realization that at age fifty he was bored with his wife, | | | | Interestingly, his spouse, we learned, was on her |
| his marriage, and life in general. While both he and his | | | | renewed journey which unsurprisingly began to bring |
| wife were receiving couples counseling from another | | | | them closer. We continued to focus on his personal |
| therapist, he decided to attend one of my weekly | | | | issues for the next several months when he decided it |
| workshops. His indecisiveness regarding the outcome | | | | was time for him to move on and concentrate on his |
| of his marriage, revealed more than the growing | | | | marital relationship and discovering "who I am". |
| mismatch of their relationship, as other group members | | | | Can any of you identify with some of the elements |
| agreed that Hank's "angst" was more a matter of the | | | | which Hank began to recognize, and perhaps continue |
| realization that he was beginning to face his mortality | | | | your own journey? |