An Unmarried Woman Page #2

- I love you.

- Swiftly moving on.

Patti?

Hello?

Hi.

- Giris had a long meeting tonight, huh?

- They're not meetings.

- What's on the news?

- Nothin'.

They're shootin' up Rhodesia,

and, uh, the garbagemen are

raisin' hell again. You know.

Jeannette is having an affair

with a 19-year-old boy.

Oh, sh*t. She's flipped.

Men go out with younger women

all the time.

Nineteen is four years

older than Patti.

Yeah, where is Patti?

She went to the movies with Phil.

- I like Phil.

- Well, maybe Phil should meetJeannette.

- Martin.

- How are Elaine and Sue?

- Fine.

- Elaine makes me very nervous.

- She likes you.

- Yeah.

I like her all right.

She just comes on too strong.

So do you sometimes.

Sometimes I get the feeling that you

prefer Elaine and Sue and Jeannette to me.

That's ridiculous, Martin.

- Do you?

- Sometimes.

Look, Martin. Patti's coming home.

I have to get up early.

Martin, I'm not in the mood.

You give me a headache.

- Take an aspirin.

- Sh*t.

Anybody home?

We're in here, honey.

What's goin' on in there?

Want me to go out

and come in again?

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- How was the movie?

- Good. We saw the new Lina Wertmller film.

- Yeah? Did you like it?

- I loved it.

But Phil thought it was flawed.

How old is Phil again?

You know how old he is. Why?

Well, your mother's friend Jeannette

is having an affair with a 19-year-old guy.

- Good for her.

- Yeah?

- Would Phil go out with Jeannette?

- I don't know.

You'd have to ask Phil.

Don't say anything

aboutJeannette.

Who am I gonna tell?

- You and Daddy fighting?

- No, it's not a fight.

- Daddy doesn't look too happy.

- Mmm!

- Good night.

- Good night.

Jesus.

You're acting like a five-year-old kid.

- I know. I know.

- It's wonderful when you're

in the mood and I'm in mood.

But, God!

It's not much fun when you

make me feel like it's an obligation.

I know. You're right. I'm sorry.

Besides, we had sex this morning.

What do you want?

Guess I'm not much fun

to live with, am I?

Are you okay?

- I don't know.

- What is it?

I don't know. I just...

find myself

I just I'm anxious all the time, you know.

About what?

I just I'm fantasizing and

- About what?

- Uhh.

About changing my life.

Quit Wall Street, go be

a disc jockey somewhere. I don't know.

- Tired of your job?

- I'll tell you something.

I've been the takeover type all my life.

I mean, in school, in the navy...

probably with you,

certainly with Patti.

- There's nothing wrong

with being a strong man.

- That's the point.

- I'm not a strong man.

I don't feel like a strong man.

- You are!

Well, I feel tired.

I don't know what to say.

You should see a psychiatrist.

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