True to the times that very few things of any emotional substance are discussed, this family, particularly Don, drinks his troubled feelings away. Betty, who also turns to alcohol, appears awkward as she moves through a life she cannot deal with. Shut down and cut off from her own emotions (and therefore disconnected from herself), she turned to someone else who pursued her -- a man who is willing, for her beauty, apparently, to take on three little children when he already has a grown daughter of his own.

 

How much have we learned to tune into our feelings about divorce since the era of Mad Men? Have we really become enlightened about communication and our feelings?