Ira & Abby2006

Arlene Black:
[Of her 33-year marriage] You two need to know the truth. It's no picnic!

Abby Willoughby:
Were you in love in the beginning?

Arlene Black:
[simultaneously] No.

Seymour Black:
[simultaneously] Not so much.

Ira Black:
[unnerved] I thought you were madly in love.

Arlene Black:
That's what we told you when you were younger. It was a good story, it made you happy.

Ira Black:
You were never in love? That's... that's depressing!

Seymour Black:
That's why we didn't tell you.

Arlene Black:
You learn to love. You *learn* to love, because you're *stuck* with each other.

Seymour Black:
Well, not stuck. Um - *hinged*. Hinged! You're hinged together, so that you can still move a little, but at the end of the day, you're always together, through good and bad.

Abby Willoughby:
Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's *very* bad.

Seymour Black:
Hasn't been so bad, Arl.

Arlene Black:
It's been bad, Sy. Trust me, Abby.