[WarriorPriestess]

I just watched one of my favorite movies last night- Jim Henson's Labyrinth.  Although it is a fantasy film, not MLC, it sure feels reminiscent of the LBS's journey on a mythic level.  So many parallels...and so inspiring.  And David Bowie plus Muppets always makes me smile. 

[SpecialK]

There have been two TV series shown over here, which on reflection were about MLC:  Life Begins with Caroline Quentin and The Choir Project with Neil Pearson & Sarah Lancashire.

In both the series, the men leave their wives and set up home with younger woman.  Reality sets in and the men want to come home.  However both woman become stronger, do things that they never did before.

In The Choir Project shows different aspects of MLC - him meeting the OW, leaving his wife and children, setting up home with OW, cracks appearing, him becoming very depressed and missing his old life - his children, wife and home.  Her becoming stronger, more a lot more confident, becoming friends with the new vicar, he wants to come home but she tells him she's not sure - she wants to explore her friendship with the new vicar and wants to be sure that she wants her husband back.

[Anjae]

Has anyone seen The Beaver or Crazy, Stupid, Love? The first is a drama the second more of a comedy but both portrait midlife
crisis/depression. Haven't see them yet but would like to.

[Anjae]

Have just watched Solitary Man. Boy, what a portrait of a man in a MLC. Ben, Michael Douglas character is pathetic. A fool full of himself that throws away everything he had.

I’m wondering how a man that was like Daniel, Jesse Eisenberg character, end up being like Ben. My husband was like Daniel, quite different from most adolescent boys. Now he is a version of Ben. Go figure…

Have Eat.Pray.Love , Crazy, Stupid, Love and Beaver to watch.

[Standing in Patience]

Now for something totally different and a bit weird....

On American Dad... a cartoon show. It's a "hot tub" that Stan buys because he is stressed totally out.... substitute "hot tub" for OW or OM and you can see what I mean and he realizes how evil it is...bear with me; it is totally irreverent. It has Cee Lo Green as a host. Watch with caution.

Here's a preview:

http://www.undergroundcharisma.com/american-dad-hot-tub-starring-cee-lo-green-preview/

[Anjae]

Standing, that bit of American Dad is hilarious.

Watched Crazy, Stupid, Love. Light comedy, good for a few laughs. Wife in MLC, husband tries to be a new, more hip man, lots of silly things happen.

[Anjae]

MLC is also knocks on french doors. French movie Qui m'aime me suive tells the story of a 35 years old successful doctor, married to a doctor, perfect friends, with a great life. But he is getting dull, so, he decides to form a rock band, and live his adolescence dream.

Nedless to say everybody around him ends up dragged in his new MLCer life.

[Standing in Patience]

Did I totally miss this somewhere on the Forum? Mrs. Robinson from the movie "The Graduate". OMG, I just watched this movie again and it was glaringly a mlc crisis. I saw the movie in college and remembered well so this is what an affair is..... even Dustin Hoffman's character is all out of sorts... unmoored and unable to find his bearings.... maybe he had an early, early mlc?

[Wed2Him?Whatever.]

I have watched Fireproof two times.  The beginning part where the couple keeps having hostile conversations, and the wife finally says after the husband yells that she just wants out, it felt very real.

I would never want my husband to watch it during MLC.  Maybe after.  I think he'd probably make some insensitive comments.

I bought the soundtrack and I have listened to two of the songs over and over, "While I'm Waiting", and "Love Is Not A Fight".
I love the lyrics: "Love is not a place To come and go as we please It's a house we enter in then commit to never leave So lock the door behind you Throw away the key We'll work it out together Let it bring us to our knees Love is a shelter in a raging storm Love is peace in the middle of a war And if we try to leave May God send angels to guard the door..."

It has helped me to listen to those lyrics in the times when I've thought, This is too much, and I'm gonna have to to walk away.

[Stillpraying]

My sister gave me the dvd to watch after H left in Feb 11.  When he told me he was leaving again in April 11, I couldn't go to sleep right away as I was too upset.  So I watched the movie and it gave me hope.  I passed it on to H and said "watch this and let me know what you think of it".  He is a movie buff after all.  He said he would.  A couple of weeks later I asked if he watched it and he just replied "why, is it supposed to fix me?".

Doubt he's ever watched it as he really doesn't want anything or anyone to change his mind at present.

The acting is pretty bad but the message is good and I have had a look at the love dare book.  Just not possible to do much of it when your H does not live with you and you have very little contact.  It would have been great if I'd had it a year ago but then ebeing in MLC, would anything have changed??  He would still want to run and find some ridiculous reason why he had to leave and hook up with OW.