Bernstein v. Bernstein

MANN, Judge.

Pleasure mistaken for happiness is life’s most persistent mirage. Doris Bernstein is a victim of a common disease, the marital blahs. Affection was replaced by indifference, and the marriage died. For years denied a normal sex life, it was apparent that during the long wake between the death of her marriage and the last legal rites she was making up for lost time. During the pendency of her divorce action she had custody of their three young children, and the trial judge doubtless concluded that she was first a woman, then a mother. The final decree gave custody to the father, and…