Everyone Accepts the Housening in 5...4...3…2…
In For Better or For Worse, Elizabeth accepts the great house exchange, primarily because she has found an apartment and won’t be living there, so she doesn't care. April accepts the house exchange only by accepting that things are going to change, and she can’t do anything about it. Then you have Deanna enthusiastically and somewhat bizarrely accepting not only the house, but the Patterson lifestyle of raising children. Then you have Elly accept it, after being bribed with new stuff. Maybe tomorrow, the mysteriously missing grandchildren will reappear from where they have been locked up, and express their delight in the idea of staying where they are.
As for the final joke, “Those women, they love their shopping!” about sums it up.
Since Lynn Johnston has made an issue of April buying her own stuff for her own room last fall when she was complaining about Liz moving in, I think this is another sign that April will not be moving with Elly and John. There is no consideration in tomorrow’s strip for the idea that April’s stuff, like Elly’s would need to be replaced. Lynn Johnston has a tendency to plot her strips knowing the ending, without considering the journey is more important than the destination, particularly where story-telling is concerned. I am sure there will be other strips detailing the move, but now this majour albatross has been taken care of, there is one other majour storyline left, and that is settling Elizabeth with her permanent guy friend. There’s about 4 ½ months left, and I think that might be enough to cover getting rid of Warren and hooking up with Anthony Caine. I expect a lot of Elizabeth strips in the months to come.
As for the final joke, “Those women, they love their shopping!” about sums it up.
Since Lynn Johnston has made an issue of April buying her own stuff for her own room last fall when she was complaining about Liz moving in, I think this is another sign that April will not be moving with Elly and John. There is no consideration in tomorrow’s strip for the idea that April’s stuff, like Elly’s would need to be replaced. Lynn Johnston has a tendency to plot her strips knowing the ending, without considering the journey is more important than the destination, particularly where story-telling is concerned. I am sure there will be other strips detailing the move, but now this majour albatross has been taken care of, there is one other majour storyline left, and that is settling Elizabeth with her permanent guy friend. There’s about 4 ½ months left, and I think that might be enough to cover getting rid of Warren and hooking up with Anthony Caine. I expect a lot of Elizabeth strips in the months to come.
posted by howard at 12:06 AM
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I thought I'd post here rather than at BB, as this probably isn't of general interest. I don't trust your source on the alleged soaring divorce rate of older Canadians. It doesn't jibe with what the family law bar in Ontario would tell you, and I've never seen or heard anything in the Canadian media other than that short marriages are more likely to fail than lengthy marriages, second marriages are more likely to fail than first marriages, and subsequent marriages are even more likely to fail. Access to information from Statistics Canada is rather limited unless you're willing to pay for it, but here's an article from Statistics Canada which states that shorter marriages are more likely to end in divorce, the peak year being three years of marriage, and that the risk of divorce decreases slowly for each additional year of marriage. I should add that anyone interpreting Canadian statistics needs to take into account that divorces were virtually unobtainable prior to 1968, and complicated/expensive to obtain between 1968 and 1986. There are still a significant number of older people seeking to dissolve lengthy marriages who have actually been separated for years, couldn't/didn't divorce at the time of separation, and are now only bothering to divorce because the continued existence of the long dead marriage is impacting on pension rights, estate planning, etc.
I quoted the article only for the purposes of trying to justify John's comment about how he wouldn't be replaced. I tried to find a statistic on the percentage of divorces filed by women in Canada, which I was unable to find. Finding the statistic in the United States was easier and put the percentage at about 2/3 or 3/4, depending on the source and the year. Not finding that statistic for Canada, I found that other article which (although you claim is not accurate) is appropriate considering the age of Elly and John. Thanks for the link to Statistics Canada, but they also did not have a statistic on percentage of gender requesting divorce in Canada.
I did find your information on the ability to get a divorce interesting. It tells me that when Lynn Johnston got her divorce from her first marriage, she must have been strongly motivated to go through a process you describe as "complicated and expensive to obtain."
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