Separtion in Families

I liked reading John Updike’s short story Separating. My own parents who have been separated since I was two years old have caused me lots of emotional pain as is noted but no practical day to day effect. It’s like by Joan telling him he needs to speak to their children one by one makes it more personal instead of telling the children as a whole. I think in parts of the story you see the why he is leaving because he feels trapped, but never shows why he is feeling trapped, is it because of the chores he has to do in the house. Then later on in the story he sees a lady’s house who would be his future wife and her light was on. So from this I guess he was cheating with another woman. This seems to be a big reason for most divorces. I believe most divorces or usually anything with sad outcomes don’t really give you the details just glances over it, like Updike notes about the movies while Richard is sitting in the car. Again I seem to be able to relate a lot to these readings because I read a note on someone’s facebook earlier about a Muslim couple and the man wanted to get a divorce because his wife was getting older and he met someone younger. So she had one request was for him to wait until the son’s exams were done in a month so he wouldn’t be unstable and for in that month each day carry her out of the bedroom to the front door where she left for work. During this time, he realized how intimate this lady was to him. So the reason for “why” also was forgotten.