A Gift Article From NYT: The 3 Times I Married My Wife
A Gift Article From NYT: The 3 Times I Married My Wife
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By Brent Chaim Spodek (Gifted to Friends Couple Enrichment by New York Times subscribers Kathy & Jeff Richman. The Richmans have been Leading FCE Events for more than 3 decades.
(Image from the New York Times, 11/28/2025 column, "Modern Love."
In his essay “The Three Times I Married My Wife”, author Brent Chaim Spodek shares about how he and his took long walks and had long talks to re-assess the meaning of committment and their ways of relating following the upheavals of battling (and surviving) leukemia.
“We began to see what we hadn’t before — that each of us was starring in our own movie. In my movie, I was the director, writer, lead and sole audience member, and Alison was a supporting character. I knew what she was supposed to say and got frustrated when she botched her lines.
In Alison’s movie, I was the one screwing up my lines.
Before she got sick, when we thought we were both in the same movie, we believed we had a happy marriage. We did, but we were just lucky. We didn’t really get married until our luck ran out.”
Enjoy this gift article from the Modern Love series by the New York Times.
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