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As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

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Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselve...more

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In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the alter, a couple would speak thus: "We accept not to panic when, some years from n...more

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I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

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Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

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To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. This isn’t necessarily our fault as individuals. Society a...more

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There is something improbably about the silence in the [subway] carriage, considering how naturally gregarious we are as a species. Still, how much ki...more