How Is That Going to Work?: Explaining Commuter Marriage to Others

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Sarah sighed as she hung up the phone and stared out the window of her third-floor office in the Arts and Sciences building. She loved being back in college teaching, but she was sick and tired of fighting other people’s ideas of what marriage was supposed to be. She often thought to herself, “Isn’t this the 21st century, for God’s sake?” Her husband, Jeff, had called to report the latest hometown gossip. Earlier that morning, the pastor of their church in Plainville had visited Jeff at his office. Jeff had built a successful accounting practice over the past 20 years while Sarah had taken primary responsibility for the
home detail and raising their two now-grown children.