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Don Draper Taught My Husband How to Leave Our Marriage
The charming and handsome womanizer as a teacher?
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
“What do you want to watch?” This question used to be a nightly ritual between my husband and me every time we finished binge watching one show and needed another in the queue.
Little did I know that when I replied, “How about Mad Men?” it would end up being the perfect program to teach my husband how to leave our marriage.
“But we’ve already seen that,” he whined as he scrolled through other options.
I persisted, “Now that we know what happens, we can look for the things we missed before like wardrobe cues, lighting, framing, and incredible dialogue.” I know he enjoys when I point out certain things in a movie I learned from attending my one film class in college.
The truly remarkable thing about the suggestion I made is that I usually don’t watch anything more than once. I don’t have the patience nor the desire to revisit shows I’ve already seen. Of course there are exceptions but the exceptions are usually movies and not television shows with multiple seasons.
Some kind of divine intervention perhaps?
