Choices Changes & Friends: 1970s After Divorce

In the tumultuous 1970s four twenty-five year old female friends - BETH CONNIE MICHAEL and APRIL - newly divorced with children - had no idea how their lives could change so radically or quickly. Prior somewhat ordinary they became like sex & the city for Chicago suburbanite housewives as willing participants in escapade sex some drugs and too much alcohol. The U. S. in quite an upheaval with protest marches of all types but these young women were rarely vocal concerning politics the Viet Nam war or the inequality of the sexes.They liked men just not the ones they were married to and not fairytale-dreamers a little romance would be nice. So they experimented dating men not acceptable before: tried some drugs drank too much laughed a lot and dance their cares away. With new male-attention they grew more brazen and confident exploring the gamut of willing men for dalliance or clandestine. Included were bikers and even a ménage à trois with a famous movie star for Connie and Beth which actually empowered them all. Anything was possible with freedom and independence.They took college classes started a house-cleaning service then thought about their changes as the friendships shifted but support of each other remained. Dilemmas-decisions of children-choices real careers and the biggie of remarriage came up with a sense of wiry-satire and sarcasm in situations to handle whatever hit them. Life separated them when Beth and April move out of State then Beth overseas - still they reunite frequently. Definitely changed-women years later in many different ways. And yet some things did not change in how they supported each other through thick and thin circumstances which would have torn weaker-women apart. At times their history together was the foundation which kept them moving forward through lifes harshest realities. Still friends their changed lives encouraged many women around them to do the same sharing their memories and experiences regarding the crazy-times of younger years.