Why you can't trust love at first sight. Even if it were a 'thunderbolt' or 'struck by lightning' first meeting.
No one could have been more certain she'd met ''the one'' than author Terry Hekker. Martha Stewart aside, Hekker became America's most famous (and controversial) homemaker when, in 1980, she wrote a book called Ever Since Adam and Eve, celebrating her own union, defending her decision to shun a career to be a full-time wife and mother and urging other women to do the same - words not easily digested by the feminist movement. But now her circumstances are drastically changed.
Humiliatingly (''like being jilted at the altar only worse''), on their 40th wedding anniversary, the man she had no doubt she'd grow old and grey with presented her with divorce papers and left for a younger woman. She now faces an uncertain financial future - indeed, the judge in her divorce case suggested that she should go for job training, even though she is now in her seventies.
''Divorce was what happened to other people,'' Hekker says. ''I gave my marriage everything - more than many - and was so sure of it, it never crossed my mind it could happen to me.''
