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The Third Thing by Donald Hall | Poetry Magazine
When we were first married, we were in love with being in love, if you know what I mean.
George S. Pransky • The Relationship Handbook
How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it’s the end of the day? Our life together was many things, concrete, tangible things, that included bacon, potatoes, coffee and toothpaste, but it was also a pattern. We had flow, colour, texture. We were the originators and makers of the shared life that we worked on eve
... See moreJeanette Winterson • Night Side of the River
Marriage can’t always be about living your best lives in sync. Because some of the peak moments of a marriage are when you share in your insecurities, your anxieties, your fears, and your longing. That commitment, the one that can withstand and even revel in the darkest corridors of a life, grows and evolves and eventually transcends a contract or
... See moreHeather Havrilesky • Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
I have entered sadness as one might enter a room – this after weeks of my heart having for its habitation a place as unyielding and flat as an Essex field in winter! John Bell says: What ails you, wife? He produces gardenias, hair-combs, lenses, bracelets in amber and jet, celestial almanacs, a white hen – reminds me that the whole exchequer of his
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
What I miss most is not any of the things I expected. It’s having someone to talk to about our children. The hilarious things they say and do, the insights with which they blow my mind and the ways they change frequently and without mercy. I need her to help me process and deliberate and delight in. I want to laugh with her. To be awestruck with he
... See moreCharlotte McConaghy • Wild Dark Shore: A Novel
one of the abiding themes of this book—that many of the hopes we hold for a particular marriage are never consummated in the way we originally imagined.