V. A Game of Two Halves: Feminism, Psychology and Marriage
Abstract
V. A Game of Two Halves: Feminism, Psychology and Marriage Guy FAULKNER and Sara-Jane FINLAY GUY Marriage killed my mother. On reflection and informed by an expensive and liberal education (paid for by my mother's estate) that appears a distinct possi- bility. Initially, and still intermittently, I think it might have been my own melo- dramatic self. For several years until my mother's death, I had been a selfish, immature adolescent set on seeking, and occasionally basking in, my father's acceptance. Sport, football in particular, became a specific process for establish- ing a masculine (and exclusive) bridge between my father and me. This more than helped to distinguish me from the 'little lamb' that I had previously been to my mother. My guilt remains regret regret that I will never know if I could have been someone different to avert her ultimate choice in an Eastern Suburb of Sydney, Australia. These issues were uppermost in my mind when I considered asking Sara-Jane to get married. SARA-JANE I come from a family where marriage works. No one in my immediate family has ever been divorced. I'm not suggesting that the Finlays have access to some utopian version of marriage