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"That first year of marriage was rocky — yeah, terrible," Clint Eastwood said emphatically. "In fact, I'd say the first two years were terrible. If I had to go through it again I think I'd be a bachelor the rest of my life. Just knowing myself like I think I do, to have to start over from scratch — I'd really hate to do it again." It seems that when Clint Eastwood got married, he didn't know what he was getting into! Once the dimpled, rawboned star of "Rawhide" found out what he had gotten into, he didn't like it. The plain talking, bushy haired young man from Oakland, California, put it as simply as that — and he didn't hesitate first to check whether his wife Mag was #jT% l7^?\ ^F*^^ >' * M\A y^ff^\ [mb] within earshot of what he was
'/j\ IQ/ Itv II //AX II ._, 1^1 ^ying. "It's so foreign, you
"" 1 ■•■ I f know," he shook his head,
^^^^r LmmJ "moving m together, having to trip over somebody else's things and so forth. Never having lived with a girl before, I didn't know what to expect. I lived at home with the family, but it wasn't the same. I just wasn't used to having to share my life with anyone." (It could be Rowdy Yates speaking — the independent, rovin' drover Clint plays on "Rawhide.")
"I'd had roommates before, but if two guys are sharing an apartment
each guy has his own things, and you kind of stay out of each other's way.
With a gal, it's another thing again." That's one way of putting it . . . but
what it amounted to was that Clint was spoiled silly — set in his ways,
Clint prefers to call it — and he had no intention (then or ever) of letting a little thing like marriage unspoil him.
"I liked doing things when I wanted to do 'em." Clint nodded, wrapping an affable grin around his iron will.
"I didn't want any interference. I just didn't like to be pressed down, or having to go out of my way to cater
[m\ to somebody, which I don't do. I'm not going to be that way. I never have been. You see, I'm a person
/# \% who's never been gifted with a particularly easygoing temperament and I have lived by myself since I
Mmm^\ was about seventeen years old." (Yes, Clint is really very much like Roivdy — except for being married. )
U lAThe way Clint saw it, it was not a question of whether he was ready for marriage, but a question of
whether he was ready to give up all he held dear — especially his individuality and independence — for marriage.
Mag was not long in recognizing that the answer to that question, which would have sent a lesser girl home
weeping to mama, was a blunt negative. "I wasn't about to give my life up entirely!" (Please turn the page)
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Must reading for all wives! Clint Eastwoods frank story of what happened when he demanded his rights as a husband!
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