Chapter 1
The Passages: Growth
Stages of a
Living Marriage
~t was the best of times， it was the worst of times. Wel
come to think of it， there wasn t much \"best\" about it. Rick am
Nancy had reached an impasse in their marriage that made jus
about every day far from best. They were both working， but the~
couldn t get ahead of the bills. Their financial trouble was noth
mg serious， nothing to scream \"bankruptcy!\" about. They wer(
just a little short all the time.
Rick was boring in his predictability. So was sex. Was Nanc)
that predictable too? She hated to think so. Naaah， surely not
Nancy didn t feel a day over twenty; she was still young， despite
the somewhat expanded waistline and the free little lines in the
corners of her eyes.
Nancy s mother-in-law， Ethyl， was a royal pain and getting
worse. The nosy woman thought Rick and Nancy ought to be
buying a house by now instead of renting. Ethyl even off red to
loan them some fhnds for the down payment. She thought they
were too hard on their girls--or too lenient. Ethyl would play it
both ways. And she was constantly complaining that Rick did，a t
pay enough attention to her. After all， she and Rick s f~thcr were
not as spry as they used to be， and they ought to be seeing their
grandchildren more regularly， and . . . The old woman. She
never seemed to let up. And Rick s dad was difficult in the oppo-
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