A Really Romantic American Love Story

Jane is an attractive young woman.

Dick is an attractive young man.

Dick and Jane meet in college and become good friends.

Dick invites Jane out on a date.

They fall in love.

Dick proposes to Jane and the two get married.

Dick and Jane have a child, Henry.

Emotional differences separate Dick and Jane and, after counseling with marriage therapists and lawyers, they file for divorce.

The separation is amicable.

Dick meets Lauren.

Jane meets George.

Dick and Lauren fallen in love.

Dick and Lauren get married.

Dick and Lauren have five children together.

Dick can’t support his family because he has to pay alimony to Jane.

Dick’s new family goes hungry.

Jane cheats on George.

Jane and George get a divorce.

Henry – Dick and Jane’s only child – tries to draw his family tree for class but can’t.

Henry cries.

Dick decides he wants to get his life back “on track” so he divorces Lauren.

He then works overtime to pay the alimony from his two past marriages.

George works in the office next to Dick, but the two never find out they are related.

Henry – the one who can’t draw his family tree – lives a life of crime because he never had an adequate father figure to act as his role model.

Lauren marries Michael in a desperate attempt to find a supporter for her large family, absent George.

Michael is happy, but his five step children are not.

All of Dick and Lauren’s children will experience at least one failed marriage.

Three of Dick and Lauren’s offspring go through multiple marriage dissolutions.

Jane never marries again, but lives with Matthew for several years.

Neither Jane nor Matthew is happy; they are just dependent on one another to fulfill their esteem needs.

Henry grows up to be an attractive young man.

Amanda is an attractive young woman.

Henry and Amanda meet in college and become good friends.

Henry invites Amanda out on a date.

They fall in love.

Henry proposes to Amanda and the two get married.

THE END