I always find it hard to comprehend how two people who liked, or hopefully loved, each other enough to invite people along to watch them get married, and to decide to bring a child into the world together, can suddenly decide that the other is a loathsome monster who can only be communicated with through overpriced professionals.That's Jeremy Langmead apropos the McCartney/Mills divorce. And my reaction to it is, 'You what?' Langmead follows up with how common sense and working hard at keeping everything 'pleasant and humane' can leave divorced couples the best of friends. Don't get me wrong; I have no quarrel with such an approach. The child of divorced parents, I'm most grateful for the amicable relationship my mom and dad maintained. And 'pleasant and humane' does, of course, nicely fit the ethos of G2 of the Graun.
But hard to comprehend how love, or even just friendship, turns bitter? Gimme a break. Never heard of how betrayal or a sense of rejection can affect people? How someone can make a bad mistake about someone else's character, and that character be seriously bad? About malice, obsession, or how the very fact of past connection can lead to deliberately aggravating a hostility so as to shut out awareness that the other may also have a point and a point of view?
And so on. Depths and darknesses of the human soul. Dostoyevsky comes in handy. And Buñuel. Plenty more.