How a Marriage Falls Apart
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Trina finds Marvin in the arms of Whizzer Brown. And in her and Marvin's den no less. The start of the fall. The beginning of how a marriage falls apart.
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- Part 1 of How a Marriage Falls Apart
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It was an édute. Short. Difficult. A trial to improve her skill at that ever changing waltz called marriage. Dramatic footwork to try to close the gap between her and her distant husband, however as she took her step forward, he moved away. Those photographs that hung on the wall were forced caricatures of the modern marriage. What a model nuclear family. What a horrible laugh.
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Marvin doesn't speak to her the day after. Trina doesn't wonder why. So she tries to fill the silence. Too bad that silence is replaced by the deafening musings of ten long years of marriage.Series
- Part 2 of How a Marriage Falls Apart
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The Requiem.
That’s what this was. Trina was singing hers now. The death of a marriage. The death of a typical family in an atypical life. Her sobs made the ironic melody that echoed in the bathroom as Marvin tried to sleep.
While his wife felt the grief new, Marvin sang his own requiem long ago. He sang his on their wedding night. He sang his the day Trina phoned her father to tell him the happy news about the baby. He sang his the first night he had sex with his wife.
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Marvin thinks back on how it all happened. And he thinks about how it was all doomed from the start.Series
- Part 3 of How a Marriage Falls Apart
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Breakfast that morning was a horrible affair. Dinner that night wasn’t any better. And the final straw was the night after Trina’s day of ironic reminiscing and Marvin’s day of retrospective mock of a reverie.
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Marvin tells Trina he's leaving her.Series
- Part 4 of How a Marriage Falls Apart
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There isn't much Trina can do to salvage her flop of a marriage. But there is something she can do to salvage herself. With a pair of scissors, Trina finds that changing the shape of herself is the first step in seeing herself clearly.
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Trina cuts her hair.Series
- Part 5 of How a Marriage Falls Apart