What about the many women and men who stay in calamitous relationships and can't figure out a way to get beyond destructive habits?
The clients who come to her are battling with a range of issues such as burnout, depression, anorexia, anger, fear, mid-life crisis, lifestyle transition, calamitous relationships, divorce, in-between jobs, death of family members, and illness.
But then we cut to another, calamitous stage in their relationship.
AND yet the relationship continues, working its way toward that calamitous wedding, partly through inertia and partly through pure desperation.
With its interlocking stories of the unhappily married Natalya and Arkady, Natalya's dithering and never-consummated relationship with Arkady's best friend, and a calamitous romance between a tutor and a bright-eyed ingenue, it is easy to spot ingredients the younger playwright would deploy so devastatingly in The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya.
The criminal brotherhood has an ambiguous relationship with poor Thomas, to say the least, which mirrors Walter's calamitous association with a rightwing mining corporation.
Not calamitous or terminal.
The result was calamitous.
Calamitous is probably better.
