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Would you have lasted 20 years?
DeeDee:
Wow, I would love to read what you wrote. Do you mind? Do I just go over there?
twistedude:
There are guys I would take back after 48 years--except he's in Denmark. But then, I didn't have to LIVE with him all that time! (Neither did Jack and Ennis, for that matter, but I think they were well-suited, if Jack could have kneaded Ennis ariound to taking that step...)
There better not be any cowboys in this post..I didn't order any...
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OddlyEven:
Would I have lasted 20 years in that kind of relationship? Wow...cheers for the original question. It's really made me stop and think and I have to say, no I don't think I could have lasted that long. If I put myself in Jack's shoes, as in the moment he drives to Wyoming right after he learns of Ennis' divorce and he gets rejected. I think that would have been the last straw for me. I couldn't have went on any longer.
DeeDee:
--- Quote from: OddlyEven on April 16, 2006, 05:24:43 pm ---Would I have lasted 20 years in that kind of relationship? Wow...cheers for the original question. It's really made me stop and think and I have to say, no I don't think I could have lasted that long. If I put myself in Jack's shoes, as in the moment he drives to Wyoming right after he learns of Ennis' divorce and he gets rejected. I think that would have been the last straw for me. I couldn't have went on any longer.
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I was just thinking that before I read your post. After that rejection, that would have been it for me. That scene was about, what, 1975? 12 years is long enough.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: DeeDee on April 16, 2006, 05:34:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: OddlyEven on April 16, 2006, 05:24:43 pm ---Would I have lasted 20 years in that kind of relationship? Wow...cheers for the original question. It's really made me stop and think and I have to say, no I don't think I could have lasted that long. If I put myself in Jack's shoes, as in the moment he drives to Wyoming right after he learns of Ennis' divorce and he gets rejected. I think that would have been the last straw for me. I couldn't have went on any longer.
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I was just thinking that before I read your post. After that rejection, that would have been it for me. That scene was about, what, 1975? 12 years is long enough.
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Hmmmmm... Easier said than done. As I've said, I never really did get over that first love of my life to the point that I didn't long for him anyore until he was seriously with someone else (and yes, that was after I'd been seriously involved with someone else for two years after we broke up). If Ennis had taken up with another guy (of course, that's impossible considering all the aspects of his character, but just humor me, here) and gotten serious with him, Jack could and would have walked away. But Ennis didn't do that. So Jack always knew he was the only one for him. That's some powerfully motivating force when you're deeply in love and don't want to let go to begin with.
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