Just read this beautiful article in The New York Times about marriage and wanted to share it with you. I really like how the writer ties events in his long marriage to his wife with social movements over the years, such as the no-need-to-get-married 1970s to development in fertility treatments (and the impact on women in their 30s) in the 1980s to the present struggle for gay marriage.
But mostly I loved the part where he says that the basis for the marriage is respect for someone who is better than you in some way (and recognition, I suppose, that you are better in some way than someone else). The idea being, I suppose, that your better ways + her better ways make for a strong union where the sum is better than the individuals.
3 comments:
That was such a lovely article C. And Im thrilled to know that it reinforces what I have always believed about successful relationships.
Keep writing.
thanks for pointing me too this. very thoughtful piece.
What the author has with his wife. . . it would be nice to have that.
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