Staying Close [antikvár]

1MARRIED BUT LONELYGetting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime would be considered among the fine arts.Author UnknownifWhen the letter came to me, I cried as I read it. Tragically, it represented what is happening with increasing regularity in our country. My friend Dave Johnson is a police officer in San José, California. He often answers that dreaded call: "4-15Family Disturbance." His letter to me, now published in his book, The Light Behind the Star, described what happened when he received one such call and arrived on the scene:I could see a couple standing in the front yard of the home. A woman was crying and yelling at the man, who was standing with his hands in the pockets of his greasy overalls. I could see homemade tattoos on his armusually a sign of having been in prison.Walking toward the two, I heard the woman demanding that he fix whatever he had done to the car so she could leave. He responded only with a contemptuous laugh.She turned to me and asked if I would make him fix the car. The other officer came forward, and we separated the couple to find a solution to the problem.I began talking to the man, who told me his wife was having an affair and was leaving him. I asked if they had gone for counseling, andM !ft,.i 1. I fcl