“That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.”
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I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
