‘A five-hour feast yesterday is no help today’

The couple sitting in the counselor’s office had been married more than 40 years. They had weathered financial setbacks, the rearing of two children, moving from city to city due to job changes, and countless marital disagreements. But they had finally hit their last wall and in desperation, they had come to the point of consulting a marriage counselor. Now they sat in cold silence, as they…