“We just all grow up… illiterate about it. I mean, maybe we should’ve been more prepared for the fact it doesn’t always end up that way. I mean it doesn’t usually end up that way so-”
“So, how do you prepare someone for that?”
“I don’t know… I think we should teach kids that yeah, love ends. It’s, uh… Relationships end and people leave and they break up and they divorce, and that’s just a part of life… And then maybe it just wouldn’t be so painful, and you know, all the suffering…”
“I think the real suffering is the in-between. You know, the limbo. Neither here nor there, just… I think that’s way harder than a breakup. That’s much more traumatic… For the kids, and for the parents.”
Oscar Isaac as Jonathan
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (2021) - Episode 4 - The Illiterates
