One True Loves
Most of all, I want Jai to be happy in the years ahead. So if she finds happiness through remarriage, that will be great. If she finds happiness without remarrying, that also will be great. Jai and I work hard at our marriage. We’ve gotten so much better at communicating, at sensing each other’s needs and strengths, and at finding more things to lo
... See moreJeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
Gabriel García Márquez captured it when describing an old couple in Love in the Time of Cholera: In the end they knew each other so well that by the time they had been married for thirty years they were like a single divided being, and they felt uncomfortable at the frequency with which they guessed each other’s thoughts …. It was the time when the
... See moreDavid Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
Peter and Margot sat at a sidewalk table, both facing out toward the streets of lower Manhattan. From this angle, their similarities would be clear to passerby. They both had long, aquiline noses and dirty blond hair, but Peter was pale and freckled and Margot tanned deeply in the summer. She had a sudden flash of an August breakfast like this one,... See more
We were so in love with each other, we were so relieved that the past was behind us, I don’t think we wanted to talk about it.”