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Storm Tracking: Scenes of Marital Disintegration

University of Texas at San Antonio

The purpose of the research was to explore the kinds of conflict cycles couples may engagein even as they struggle to overcome their problems. This script was developed fromresearch notes, contemporaneously recorded during the weeks leading to the author'sseparation from her husband, using autoethnographic processes of systematic introspection.¹ The play script form was adopted to reflect the coconstructed, embodied, andembedded nature of relational cycles. A story in and of itself can "call" us into the heartand mind of another person, and a script shared publicly in performance can extend theprocess of relationship inquiry into another experiential domain.² The disintegration ofthe author's marriage as told in "Storm Tracking" mirrors the emotional complexity ofrelational endings in general. The author has employed a representational form that pre-servesand perhaps extends this complexity, rather than reducing the story to a finiteexplanation of what went wrong.

Key Words: marriage • conflict • narrative • autoethnography • performance

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