Marriage across the miles

Commuter marriages are on the rise, due to the slow housing market. By This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Reporter Marilyn Gardner discusses the difficulties of long commutes and long distance relationships. Ruth Kinzey and her husband, Joseph Gettys, fully expected to move last year when she accepted a position as senior vice president of a retail firm headquartered in Massachusetts. They put their house in Salisbury, N.C., on the market and began house-hunting. But when their three-month contract with their broker ended, they had not received an acceptable offer. They also discovered that a comparable home in suburban Boston would cost three or four times more. So they decided to keep their house, and she would commute home on weekends. As the housing market... [read full story]