Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Burnham's wife (Annette Bening), on the other hand, has taken a career-centered path to happiness, hoping to gain power and meaning by climbing up the real-estate business ladder. She sacrifices everything for career and seems to resent her daughter and husband, whose existences have impeded her upward mobility. This, too, of course, leads not to happiness but only more frustration and more powerlessness...
...when she was raising her five children as a single mom. "Every Christmas, every Thanksgiving, it was just us," she says. "We were so hungry for a family." Since then, the void they felt has filled to the brim. In three years the Dallas clan has expanded to include husband Rick and two-year-old Kristina. Along with a stepfather, the Farmer marriage brought Jean's five older children yet another new relative--a stepgrandmother, Rick's widowed mother Charlene. And when Charlene in turn wed Joseph Glahn last year, Rick suddenly had to get used to a stepfather...
...Sara Miller McCune, 58, of Santa Barbara, Calif., "stepgrandparenting was a special process where love was learned, not born." After the 1990 death of her husband, she continued a stepgrandparenting tradition of more than two decades. She spent three days last year traveling in Britain with one of her four stepgrandchildren, Samantha Sarvat, 18. Says Samantha: "I never saw my grandmother laugh so hard or look so happy." That's the main thing: the blended family offers stepgrandparents an opportunity to play a unique role, in which all share in the rewards...
...fact, tradition-minded women can be just as discomfited by this shift in male roles. In part, they may fear seeing their husband's vulnerability exposed; all along they've been comforted by his stoic assurance, "Don't worry, honey, it'll be fine...
...more excited than scared. The procedure wasn't painful. It was over in 10 minutes. It was worse for my husband, who watched close up on a TV monitor and said it was almost as bad as watching my caesarean. I went home, took a nap, woke up--and could see the clock across the room. At the doctor's the next day, I was seeing 20/20 with my left eye, 20/40 with my right...