A happy marriage is like a fire: all the work is in the choice of firewood and kindling. If you pick the right materials, it explodes into life and actively throws off heat. If you start with wet punky wood and damp leaves, no amount of matches and newspaper will make it light. https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/988781438282731520 …
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4/ I certainly think that our society should emphasize marriage and de-glorify divorce. ...but just saying "stay together!" ignores the fact that the super important tricky part is the earliest stage: mate selection. Get that wrong and...hoo boy.
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5/ oh, this slate article gets dumber and dumber. Society caused her marriage to fail because society didn't pay her enough or give her enough vacation time. >>>
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6/ " [ we had ] no time and no money for swimming with the dolphins somewhere in the Caribbean. We did manage to take exactly one weeklong vacation a year" Poor baby. I've taken one vacation in my adult life - 18 years ago I took a 1 week timber-framing course.
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7/ Most weekends aren't even vacations, just cooking, cleaning, feeding animals, doing tractor maintenance, maintaining the house, writing, etc. There's this crazy idea that vacations are a mandatory part of life, and lack of vacations is abnormal. I don't get it.
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I was just thinking about this this morning. It’s like parenting. Yes, your work and passion matter. But there’s another human -mind, soul, temperament, will involved...your effort isn’t the only determining factor.
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And people who are smug about their “success” in marriage or parenting don’t perhaps realize how much “luck” played into the mix of humans they ended up with.
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