The headline of an article in the July issue of Ami Magazine poses an alarming question: "Is bungalow colony life hazardous to your marriage?
The answer, according to the story, is a resounding yes. The article is a tale of woe from a woman referred to only as "Rena," who faults the summers she spent in the Catskills, at the colonies that serve as the summer homes of much of New York City's Orthodox Jewish population, for destroying her marriage.
From the article, which you can read on COLLive.com:
While the Catskills represented an idyll for Rena the child, the married adult experienced them as the rocky shoals on which her foundering marriage was shipwrecked.
The issue in a nutshell, Rena says, was the inevitable envy that comes from living in close quarters with other couples:
Living together under such intimate circumstances can breed plenty of problems ... "Her husband is always the first one in shul for the early morning Shabbos minyan? Mine is inevitably late for every single minyan he attends."
