“Every morning, he wants to have a kiss when I wake up.
It’s a nice way to start the day,” Lyn said.
Norman is happy with Lyn, too.
Before her, two other women shaped his life.
He met his first wife, Charlotte Rosen, when he was a teenager.
He met his second wife, Frances Lear, well into his career as a television writer.
And that was true whichever of her bipolar moods she was in," Lear wrote in the book.
Neither of Lear’s first two marriages led to happily-ever-afters.
In fact, both deserve television storylines of their own.
They met in 1939 on a hayride.
She was 18, and working at a cosmetics counter.
Lear writes that the two had hardly any common interests.
He was, nonetheless, “attracted to the idea of a Charlotte long before I met her.”
In 1942, Lear dropped out of college to join the Air Force (viaWWTW).
A year later, Norman and Charlotte were married.
As he explains in his memoir, Lear wanted to move to New York to advance his career.
She was intent on staying in L.A. to continue therapy.
It was partly this turbulence that intrigued Norman.
Frances was 32 when she met Norman.
She’d been divorced two times already.
“I was nothing but my marriage and my motherhood …
I was what the women’s movement was all about.
The divorce did Frances good.
