One of my favorite and guiltiest pleasures is reading Modern Love in the Sunday Style section of the NY Times -- after I read the business and sports section of course.
From time to time, I will post an article of note from that series. The one that I am posting today is an article about a news reporter who began a relationship with a prisoner. She married the prisoner, moved his children in with her and waited for him for seven years to be paroled. Ultimately, he was paroled, but the relationship did not last.
A couple of things about the article are disturbing -- the professional boundary issues; the intensity of the relationship with someone who was not free; the state sanctioned [not a problem] and "observed" sex in custody; and the naivete of the writer.
I kept wondering if the appeal was primarily that she was the powerful and needed one and that she had a captive audience -- someone who would listen and talk to her endlessly.
I would be interested in your perceptions.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/fashion/15love.html
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I think she is a good writer, in the romantic novelist category, and that this is a story about the irrationality of love and life. It could be a total fantasy. Note that she avoids the real difficulties that would be faced by this kind of relationship but that it is the husband that saves her from them. I wonder if it's really a true story. It is a story of complete egoism, ironically enough; she gets to be the saviour, and great sex :-), and in the end, no commitment to the hard stuff. Romantic fiction, I'd say.
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