The Kennedy family in the 1930s
Joe [Kennedy Sr.] worked long hours and was often away all night. Rose never asked where he had been, any more than her mother had asked Honey Fitz. But at some point in 1920 she moved back to her parents' house for several weeks. After attending a religious retreat, she returned to Beals Street determined to fulfil her wifely and maternal duties. In 1921, they found a bigger house in the same neighborhood with a private bedroom for Rose. Soon they began taking separate vacations. Years later, when their granddaughter Caroline asked how they handled their differences, Rose explained: 'I would just say "Yes, dear," and then I'd go to Paris.'
--Jackson Lears in a review in the London Review of Books, 7 November 2013
