Hey all!!!
An interesting character, I wish to pick up today for discussion is of George Sibley.
Enacted by James Cromwell, this character is of a geology professor, who later becomes the second husband of Ruth. He has had half a dozen wives before this wedding and even has some sort of past which Ruth does not know anything about.
George has had two children from one of his past marriages. Brian is his son and daughter Maggie is a representative of a pharmaceutical concern, a job that involves lot of travelling.
But then there is another kid he has, who is named Kyle. Actually as a student he had gotten a girl pregnant. Even as he had signed down his custody and Kyle was born a rich lad, he hates George a lot. So much so that he even parcels off feces at the home of Fishers. But soon the father and the son start to bond well, as Ruth intervenes.

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But Ruth and George’s relation also does not last long. George has a nervous breakdown and is treated with shock therapy, because he still rues the event of 1953, when he was a kid and his mother killed herself. So Ruth has to bear a lot and before ultimately getting separated from him. But soon, he informs her of his eighth engagement. Ruth reveals everything to his fiancée about the past of George and the relationship ends.
When Nate dies, the couple gets together once again, with George taking care of Maya as well. They are on the verge of living together once again, but Ruth decides to remain independent and changes her decision. Maggie too moves away from him as she thinks that George is the cause of all the troubles in her life.
The end is good though. George lives away from Ruth but stays with her till later in her last times, until she passes away in the year 2025.
So, a character with just a tinge of humor but with strong portrayal of marital relations, that’s who George is.
Do write in your views and thoughts.
-Tal Talbot