6 Family Man

CHAPTER 6 Family Man Bruce lived and breathed for his music. It didn't leave much time for romance or love. Throughout his life, Bruce had had girlfriends. He had never gotten married, though. That changed in 1985. Bruce was thirty-five when he met an actress named Julianne Phillips. Juli was ten years younger than Bruce. She had grown up in Oregon, the youngest of six children. She had been a model before she was an actress. Bruce and Juli got married just seven months after they met. Bruce told one of his friends that the first time he saw Juli, he knew she was the one for him.

布鲁斯为他的音乐而生。 没有多少时间留给浪漫和爱情。 布鲁斯一生中有过很多女朋友。 不过，他从未结过婚。 这种情况在1985年发生了变化。布鲁斯35岁时遇到了一位名叫朱丽安·菲利普斯的女演员。 朱莉比布鲁斯小十岁。 她在俄勒冈州长大，是六个孩子中最小的一个。 她在当演员之前曾做过模特。 布鲁斯和朱莉在认识七个月后就结婚了。 布鲁斯告诉他的一个朋友，当他第一次见到朱莉时，他就知道她就是他的真命天子。

Unfortunately, he was wrong. The marriage was a difficult one. Bruce and Juli spent a lot of time apart. Bruce was on tour with the band, and Juli focused on her acting. A few years after they were married, Bruce and Juli separated, and Bruce began seeing Patti Scialfa. A Jersey Shore native, Patti was a backup singer for the E Street Band. When Bruce and Patti started dating, some fans were upset because Bruce and Juli weren't divorced yet. But it turned out that Patti Scialfa was the right person for Bruce. They married a few years later.

不幸的是，他错了。 这段婚姻很艰难。 布鲁斯和朱莉分开的时间很长。 布鲁斯和乐队在巡演，朱莉则专注于表演。 结婚几年后，布鲁斯和朱莉分居了，布鲁斯开始和帕蒂·夏法约会。 帕蒂是泽西海岸人，曾是E街乐队的伴唱歌手。 当布鲁斯和帕蒂开始约会时，一些粉丝很沮丧，因为布鲁斯和朱莉还没有离婚。 但事实证明，帕蒂·夏法才是布鲁斯的合适人选。 几年后他们结婚了。

Besides ending his first marriage, Bruce wanted to make other changes in his life. In 1989, Bruce called the band members together. He had decided it was time for him to break away. He wanted to be on his own, not be tied to the music of the E Street Band. Some of the band members had guessed this might happen. Bruce had been pulling away from them. They knew he wanted the freedom to play solo or with different musicians. Still, they were upset that something so great was ending.

除了结束第一段婚姻，布鲁斯还想在生活中做出其他改变。 1989年，布鲁斯召集了乐队成员。 他已经决定是时候离开了。 他想要靠自己，而不是被E街乐队的音乐所束缚。 一些乐队成员已经猜到这可能会发生。 布鲁斯一直在远离他们。 他们知道他想要自由地独奏或与不同的音乐家一起演奏。 尽管如此，他们还是为如此伟大的事业即将结束而感到沮丧。

Bruce was always known as a Jersey guy. Very few performers are so closely linked with a particular state. It was the only state he had ever called home. Yet now Bruce wanted to break away from his roots. Bruce decided to move away. He and Patti moved across the country to Los Angeles. Bruce's parents had also moved to California in the late 1960s. It was during this time that Bruce became closer with his father. His dad had suffered a stroke and was now reaching out to his son in a way he never had before.

布鲁斯一直被认为是泽西人。 很少有表演者与一个特定的国家有如此紧密的联系。 这是他唯一称之为家的州。 然而现在布鲁斯想要脱离他的根基。 布鲁斯决定搬走。 他和帕蒂穿越了整个国家来到洛杉矶。 布鲁斯的父母也在20世纪60年代末搬到了加州。 正是在这段时间里，布鲁斯和他的父亲走得更近了。 他的父亲患了中风，现在以一种前所未有的方式向他的儿子伸出援手。