TA TALKS BACK: MY WIFE IS LOST IN THE TWILIGHT
TA attracts many wives, mothers, sisters etc….A husband tells us what it’s like to lose his wife to Twilight:
Reading by its nature is a solitary act. A method which one can use to transported into another world, another time. Where one can exercise a compassion for humanity – without fear that the characters will suffer any long term ill, even if they die, they live on a previous page. In contradiction one can feel empathy with a characters feelings, not matter how fanciful they are.Here in lies a problem. My wife (I sound like Colombo) is a Twilight fan; I don’t mean a causal reader or someone who has seen the film (which is not too bad in all honesty, better than the princess diaries), I mean a serious fan. She has seen the film at least three times to my knowledge (this could be more) and read all the books including the half finished manuscript from the lead characters view point, at least three times, again this could be more. She reads everything online, I am sure she has probably gone to page 600 on the Google search. She reads all the film blog updates. I think you get the idea, she has (a little bit of) an obsession.
The Twilight saga is a captivating story that has stolen my wife. Which sometimes I must admit I can find beneficial, I play guitar and it allows me time to practice, though I can’t record at the moment, as the laptop is constantly in use on the twilight treasure hunt.
I do feel some concern that it is a ‘waste of time’ as there is no product resulting from the obsession, though escapism is beneficial, is it right when it consumes most if not all of your free time? But the time is free after all.
My secondary concern is that this obsession is one I feel I have no part of or understanding of, maybe this is selfishness on my part, and I pledge to read the books to be able to share in the discussion. I will try and keep you updated with my findings.
Please tell your husbands, boyfriends, partners that someone else feels there pain. I am venturing into the unknown for them, if I am not back soon, don’t worry, I probably got bored, or worse still obsessed.
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