Atlantic article on modern marriage

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Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off - The Atlantic (July/August 2009)

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Hah! My husband, or should I say my current husband :wink: (who happens to be a road musician, like the author’s bereft and betrayed spouse) sent me the link yesterday. He’s such an Eeyore, always looking on the bright side :roll_eyes:

Sandra Tsing Loh is so much more amusing in audio than in print … “Eckhart Tolle is a hairless mouse” :stuck_out_tongue:

While I wouldn’t necessarily say that marriage is doomed, she makes some good points about “marriage the way we do it in america”

I like her idea for tribal childrearing, though.

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Thanks for the link..

Im about to “take the plunge” watching myself step into this marriage with that statistical undercurrant of doom, he and I will move out of the big city and on to suburbia. I face anxiety and dread at living a life destined to end in yet another american statistic, yet Im marching ahead?

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‘Destined’? Don’t be so pessimistic, Julia. :slight_smile: I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you and wish the two of you a long and happy life together. :smiley: Hopefully, you’ll be together until you’re separated by death.

I’m an optimist, despite everything I’ve seen. I wish you and your soon-to-be hubby all the best. :smiley:

Musk