The joys and challenges of a long-term relationship Roller Coaster. Scenes from a Marriage expresses a variety ofmoments most long-term relationships face with intended honesty,intimacy, and humor. In western culture, growing old is oftenaccompanied by feelings of shame. Terms such as »losing your wits,«»becoming irrelevant« and »being abandoned« haunt older individuals.Aimee McCrory's goal as a photographer is to raise awareness regardingthe joys and the challenges of growing old together. Drawing upon herbackground in theater, she created the series as a »pseudo- documentary«version of the relationship with her husband of forty-two years, Don.McCrory manipulates their personal domestic circumstances just enough toheighten elements of mystery. The viewer's array of responses may saymore about their domestic relationships than about what can be seen inthe actual photographs.