When Did I Stop Being 20 and Other Injustices by Judith Viorst
Author:Judith Viorst
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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STRIKING BACK
When a husband tells a wife
Stop screaming at the children
And he isn’t crazy about the drapes
And why doesn’t she learn where Thailand is
And maybe she should cut her hair
(All of which, needless to say, are implicit attacks on her intelligence, taste, desirability, and maternal instincts)
A wife
Can only
Strike back.
So sometimes I try
My mother’s technique
Which is silence for a week.
A brooding stare into the ruined future.
And no rouge for that look of
You are making me so miserable you are giving me
A fatal illness.
It occasionally works.
And sometimes I try
Weeping, cursing, expressions of bitter remorse.
And don’t ever expect to see the children again,
Which I often follow with phone calls pricing suites
At expensive hotels.
I’ve had limited success.
There is also the psychoanalytic confrontation
Which entails informing him
(More, of course, in sorrow than in anger)
That his sadistic treatment of those who love him is a sign of
unconscious feelings of inadequacy and
He needs help.
I’ve dropped this approach.
But there is always
Total recall
During which all the wrongs he has done me since first we met are laid before him.
And when this is combined
With refusing to go to the Greenbergs’ annual costume party,
Tossing and moaning in my sleep,
And threatening to commit suicide, take a lover, and drop out of the PTA because why try to save the school system when my entire universe is falling apart,
I start to feel
I’m really
Striking back.
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