1:12:03
He said that I
probably couldn't get a job...
1:12:05
...that would pay enough
to hire a babysitter.
1:12:08
Tell me, are you employed
at the present time?
1:12:11
I'm a sportswear designer
here in New York.
1:12:14
And what is your present salary?
1:12:16
I make $31 ,000 a year.
1:12:19
Mrs. Kramer, do you love your child?
1:12:24
Yes, I do, very much.
1:12:26
And yet you chose to leave him.
1:12:30
Yes.
1:12:37
During the last five years
of our marriage...
1:12:42
...l was becoming more
and more unhappy.
1:12:45
More and more troubled.
1:12:47
And I really needed
somebody to help me...
1:12:51
...but when I turned to Ted, he just...
1:12:55
...wasn't there for me.
1:12:57
So we became more isolated
from one another...
1:13:00
...more and more separate.
1:13:03
He was very involved in his career.
1:13:06
And because of his attitude
towards my fears...
1:13:10
...and his inability
to deal with my feelings...
1:13:15
...l had come to have
almost no self-esteem.
1:13:19
I was scared and I was very unhappy.
1:13:22
In my mind I had no choice
but to leave.
1:13:26
At the time I left, I felt that
there was something wrong with me...
1:13:31
...and that my son would be
better off without me.
1:13:35
And it was only after I got
to California that I realized...
1:13:40
...after getting into therapy,
that I wasn't a terrible person.
1:13:46
And just because I needed some kind
of creative or emotional outlet...
1:13:51
...other than my child,
that didn't make me unfit.
1:13:55
I would like to submit in evidence
a report by Mrs. Kramer's therapist...
1:13:59
...Dr. Eleanor Freedman.