There Are Problems Connected With Infidelity And

The Romantic Myth Is So Strong That It Survives The Wear And Tear Of Marriage By Simply Detaching From It And Floating Up On Ahead, And Women Who Are Rather Fond Of The Men They Married, As Well As Ones Who Are Not, Go Through Life With A Bag Packed For The Day When The Shining Knight On A White Charger Arrives, Just In Case He Does.

The Dream Of Romantic Love Is Taken More Seriously In North America Than It Is Anywhere Else In The World, Which Is Why We Believe In Fidelity And Why We Believe In Infidelity As Well. It Is Also, Of Course, What Makes Our Divorce Rate As High As It Is. Falling In Love At First Sight And Instant Gratification Are Part Of The World In Which We Live, So There Are People Who Believe Adamantly In Fidelity. They Just Don't Believe In It For Long.

Friends Are Like Windows Through Which You See Out Into The World And Back Into Yourself. If You Don't Have Friends You See Much Less Than You Otherwise Might.

The Best Kind Of Men Have A Certainty In Themselves That Isn't Done In When Countered By A Certainty In Their Women, And They Are Much Adored.

We Marry To Grow Up, To Escape Our Parents And To Inherit Our Share Of The World, Not Knowing Who We Are And Who We Will Become, So It Is Left To Marriage To Make It Clear Which Ones Of Us Are Growing In The Same Directions And Which Are Ships Meant To Have Passed In The Night.