Word: apartness
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...decision is inadequate - clearly, the Episcopal Church has torn apart the Anglican Communion and wants to walk away from the rest of the church," Guernsey says. "The Episcopal Church embarked on its course before there were African bishops and will continue to do so." He adds that American churches have become too dry and lost their vigor. In contrast, Guernsey says that Western visitors are often overwhelmed by the heightened religiosity found in Ugandan churches...
...couples who can't bear to spend even a night apart, the advantages of commuter marriages are perhaps unfathomable. But to people like Wendy Wu, 34, they're crystal clear. Wu, a litigator for New York City-based firm Proskauer Rose, was married in April 2006. As an associate, she works ungodly hours but feels little guilt about leaving her new husband waiting at home alone--because said husband is three time zones away, in Los Angeles, where he works for the police department. Wu has been working out of the L.A. office of her firm, and when...
Even the arrival of kids doesn't necessarily end the arrangement. The census counts 817,000 children under 18 who have married parents living apart for reasons other than marital discord. For these couples, it can mean a hectic and stressed-out lifestyle akin to single parenting for one spouse and an achingly lonely and guilt-ridden one for the other. Every Monday, Jaime Cangas, 40, kisses his wife Karen, 36, goodbye as she leaves their Plano, Texas, home and heads toward the airport. As a consultant for Accenture, she will be gone until late Thursday night, working with clients...
Experts say the rockiest phase of the commuter marriage often comes with the longed-for permanent reunion. Tom McConnell, 62, and his wife Joy, 55, lived apart when Tom was laid off from his job as an insurance executive in 1993 and found a similar position in Boston--115 miles away from their home in Simsbury, Conn., a commute too grueling to make daily. When Tom finally moved back 10 years later, Joy had "gotten used to being without him, to having my own life," she says. How long did it take to readjust? "Six months to a year," says...
...finest of negative stories—the most beloved kind. We had a man with a twisted fetish for watching poor, defenseless dogs rip each other apart; and if they didn’t try hard enough to please him, he’d ruthlessly slaughter them in ways only fit for a Hostel movie. Add in a dash of rich, spoiled athlete and a sinister sneer and face to match, and you had a recipe for quite a firestorm...