Rebounds

A friend from the States, the country of multiple marriage and divorce, told me the other day that there is a kind of folklore there that the third marriage is golden. The first time round, you are young and inexperienced and don't understand how hard it is to make a marriage work, so you eventually split and are drawn to someone with different qualities, the opposite, perhaps. Your first partner was boring and steady, so you are drawn to the wild, or vice versa. So that quickly doesn't work because you're with someone on the rebound from your first big love. But by the time the third one comes along, the theory goes, you know who you are, what you want, how to get it, and most importantly how hard you have to work to keep it.

Looking back, I can see how I have been rebounding back and forth like a pinball all my life!

Sketch by Rodin