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But first husband Mike Bauer (Gary Pillar) is "more romantic" — as he proves to Julie Conrad (Sandy Smith) !■ Have Robin and Mike demanded too much . . . and given too little? Will they make Alex and Julie suffer, too?
Marriage is never a solution to personal problems and, in fact, can serve to intensify those problems. The couple who marry for neurotic reasons — because they fear being doomed to spinsterhood or bachelorhood, or because all their friends have married, or because their parents want them to — will sooner or later find their marriage turn to dust.
The best of marriages requires a great deal of personal adjustment in its early period. One based on other things, rather than honest love, may not be able to survive this stress and strain. The hope that love will grow after marriage may soon prove to be only a delusion.
If marriage could solve personal problems, one out of four wouldn't wind up in divorce. The experiences of Robin and her first husband, Mike, prove this point most effectively.
Let's first consider Robin, now married to Alex Bowden — but previously
the bride of Mike Bauer and still influenced by that romantic relationship. Reared without a father, Robin had been neglected while her emotionally disturbed mother flitted about, working and searching for love herself. When her mother remarried, Robin enjoyed the warmth of a real home for a short time.
Then her mother died. Fortunately, Robin eventually found wise and loving foster parents in Meta and Bruce Banning. But the scars of her earlier catch-as-catch-can existence were very deep. Family ties, a sense of belonging . . . these may have come to Robin too late.
The brief glimpse Robin had of a happy home life may keep her searching for more of the same eternally. It seems likely that she will seek out a father-substitute — to make up for the steady, stable father she never had. But anyone she marries is apt to fall short of her expectations, as substi
tutes invariably do. The fact that her mother's marriage brought her the little happiness she enjoyed could lead Robin to follow the same pattern — to marry, not once but twice, perhaps even more.
Girls such as Robin rarely make good marriages. They marry for false, neurotic reasons — usually, security not love — and if they don't find what they want the first time around, they'll try again and again.
Now let's consider Mike, a handsome young engineer and an old friend of Robin through his aunt, Meta. Dominated all his life by his mother, Mike didn't court Robin — he stole her away from his best friend under dramatic circumstances! Though he was shyer than his friend, Robin soon discovered that — of the two — Mike was the more exciting, the more romantic . . . the one more apt to fulfill her childhood dreams of "real" love. (Please turn the page)
ou can learn about yourself from them. This month-The Guiding Light"
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