:23:00
...I worked in the art department of
Mademoiselle magazine for years.
:23:05
Did you continue to work
after you were married?
:23:09
No. I did not.
:23:11
Did you wish to?
:23:13
Yes, but every time I talked to Ted...
:23:18
To my ex-husband about it,
he wouldn't listen.
:23:23
He refused to discuss it
in any serious way.
:23:27
He said that I
probably couldn't get a job...
:23:30
...that would pay enough
to hire a babysitter.
:23:33
Tell me, are you employed
at the present time?
:23:36
I'm a sportswear designer
here in New York.
:23:39
And what is your present salary?
:23:41
I make $31,000 a year.
:23:44
Mrs. Kramer, do you love your child?
:23:48
Yes, I do, very much.
:23:51
And yet you chose to leave him.
:23:55
Yes.
:24:02
During the last five years
of our marriage...
:24:07
...I was becoming more
and more unhappy.
:24:10
More and more troubled.
:24:12
And I really needed
somebody to help me...
:24:16
...but when I turned to Ted, he just...
:24:20
...wasn't there for me.
:24:22
So we became more isolated
from one another...
:24:25
...more and more separate.
:24:28
He was very involved in his career.
:24:31
And because of his attitude
towards my fears...
:24:35
...and his inability
to deal with my feelings...
:24:40
...I had come to have
almost no self-esteem.
:24:44
I was scared and I was very unhappy.
:24:46
In my mind I had no choice
but to leave.
:24:51
At the time I left, I felt that
there was something wrong with me...
:24:56
...and that my son would be
better off without me.