A First Failure, A Second Chance

sit through all that bullshit. [. . .] Luckily, my son was just a little too young to he bothered with it. I'll never forgive the press, and I know the people directly responsible for it. Anyway, anyone who reads that stuff and believes it is a moron. None of my friends who read it believe it. It's written by morons."

Shortly, though, Sting had to confront the break-up publicly. "We're separated," he confirmed in 1982 about his relationship with Frances. "It's impossible to sustain a marriage, or any sort of commitment like that, when you're on the road most of the year or locked up in some recording studio." Even though Frances gave birth to Sting's second child in 1982, in 1984 Frances would file for divorce, citing the fact that she and her husband had not lived together for two years.

Ironically, though, different rules seemed to apply to Sting's new relationship. "[Trudie was] the first woman I hadn't wanted to run away from and go be a pop star," he would later say. Aside from some early and short-lived rumors, Sting and Trudie's relationship has been solid and—surprise— uneventful. "Socially I'm loath to go anywhere without Trudie. I don't like to go to a party without her. I don't want to do much at all without her. I certainly don't want to have a sexual adventure without her. If you have an affair with somebody, it means you exclude your best friend."

Uneventful, that is, in the negative connotation of the word. The two have had four children, and Trudie was an equal partner with Sting in the formation of the Rainforest Foundation ("She was really the one who convinced me to go to the jungle. I've learned to trust her intuition."), and it is actually Trudie who has produced the yearly benefits put on by the Foundation.

The only question in their relationship was whether or not the two would become husband and wife. With 1987's "The Secret Marriage" (from . . . Nothing Like the Sun) Sting attempted to answer that question: "The secret marriage vow is never spoken / The secret marriage can never be broken." However, as the couple's children grew older, it became apparent that the kids wanted a formalization of their parents' relationship. And so, on August 20, 1992, the couple exchanged vows in a small, civil ceremony. Two days later Mr. and Mrs. Sting celebrated their

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