When a social scientist “proved” that married persons are happier, the media had a discipline day. However are we even asking the fitting query?
23 hours in the past
As a toddler, I knew two issues about my future to be true: One, I might sometime be a author. Two, I might by no means, ever get divorced.
There have been a couple of youngsters in my class with divorced mother and father, and their lives struck me as horribly disjointed. They continuously needed to schlep between completely different homes with completely different guidelines and completely different mother and father, typically dropping observe of what was the place. I appreciated that I had all my issues in a single place, and I cherished how close-knit my household was, even when my very own mother and father didn’t all the time get alongside. The one draw back of my secure childhood was that I couldn’t develop into the tortured author we like to rejoice, one whose genius was solid by early years filled with distress and trauma.
That I might marry somebody finally was a given. Even on the heels of the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies counterculture motion, by which each my mother and father took half, I used to be nonetheless fed a gradual food plan of “damsel in misery meets Prince Charming” tales. I spent fairly a little bit of time pontificating on who this Prince Charming is perhaps, and whether or not we might dwell in a mansion or (God forbid) an…
