The honeymooning is over!

~~~Julia was unprepared for the class clash in her marriage. She was ill equipped to be a housewife. In the beginning, the aura of the honeymoon rescues her inadequacy. Lucas who for a long time taken cared of his sick wife; did the cooking, washing of clothes and did practically everything for her. When she got pregnant, it again sparked more energy into him to continue to make up for her inefficiency.
~~~Julia had been spoiled by her mother who did not like her kids tolling like farmers and whom she wanted them to enjoy their childhood. Her mother had had food in abundance and would share; therefore, it was like a trade-off for their help. Her neighbors and friends they aid her in what ever they could as a result, her kids had no chords to do.
~~~Lucas not only had to cook, wash clothes but he had to work the farm, and feed the animals. When he dropped by a neighbors house he would see how different it was in other households, the way it should be. The toll of almost four years of doing practically everything was draining him out of energy.
~~~Julia would entertain him with her jokes and stories as he worked. She had learned as a cripple how to amuse people so that her inactivity was not notice. It was not that she was taking advantage but that she did not know what to do. She had lived a privileged life and was use to it.
~~~The myths and traditions in those days still need unraveling today, they are just question of believes. They are power by the belief people put in them. Most times, past on and never question.
~~~They believed that sexual intercourse with pregnant females would cause birth defects or mental illness. After giving birth, they could not have intercourse for forty days. Here this was due to the birth canal being enlarged and prompts to infection but they really did not know this. They just assumed it was a bad omen.
~~~Well, all of this added on to Lucas sexual deprivation.
~~~Puerto Rican men associated themselves back then with roosters. Since, there is one rooster for many hens to mount...so he did what all men did back then he got himself a mistress.
~~~Between the one side of the mountain where they live and the other side of the mountain where the Santana’s lived, the Castro’s lived in-between on the top of the mountain.
~~~Mercedes Castro was always alone because her husband was a sugarcane foreman who was always in the plantation supervising his workers or giving reports to his superior. She had seen how over extended with work Lucas was and since her house was close to his she would often invite him for coffee.
~~~She could have had servants but she refused to spend her husband’s hard-earned money that way. She knew how it was to work so hard and had a soft spot for the hard working Lucas. Mercedes eyes danced in merriment and although she worked hard, she had means to be happy. She not only had things under control but also knew when to take action. Mercedes was intelligent and she was a happy woman. For a while, they were just friends but later they became lovers.
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