Memoir of love, depression in New England raises haunting issues
In February 2000, at age 67, Guy Waterman reached the grim goal he and his wife spent more than a year preparing for: He committed suicide by freezing to death in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
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His death, like all suicides do, raised agonizing questions. In her new memoir, ”Losing the Garden: The Story of a Marriage,” Laura Waterman looks to love for answers.
”In my life with Guy I had loved blindly, plunging wholeheartedly into this irrational, joyous, painful, perplexing territory we call love,” she writes. ”I had taken love to extremes.”
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Grohol, J. (2005). Memoir of love, depression in New England raises haunting issues. Psych Central. Retrieved on May 25, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2005/04/10/memoir-of-love-depression-in-new-england-raises-haunting-issues/
