Carter and His wife
what was up with he and his wife, I did not pick up on this, can someone explain why he was not into her anymore or was he mistaken.
shareIt's something that is all too common when a couple has kids. Life with kids changes you as a couple. All the activities like music lessons, soccer games, homework, etc. All of that makes you change your focus to the kids and not on each other or your marriage any more. So by the time the kids move out and have their own lives, you are left alone with each other again. Only this time you two have to figure who you are with out the kids, get to re-know each other again as people and as a couple, not as parents. Carter says as much when he talks about "looking at her without all the noise". It can be scary to have been married to someone for 40+ years and after that long when the kids/noise is gone you don't know who she is or who you are any more. No one may have changed but you lose each other and your identity as a married couple and possibly yourself. He didn't know what to do without the kids there, he didn't know how to relate to her as a husband anymore. That's why at the end they say "he left a stranger and came back a husband".
shareHaving watched the scene last night where they were about to make love, she remembered everything. How he couldn't keep his hands off her. It explains my misconceptions about her in the beginning of the movie. She was almost shell-shocked by his neglect.
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