I was lucky to have survived three marriages and to have healed enough to write about them. Now I want to protect the marriage I have with silence. He relies on me to be his chronicler. He was mostly asleep during his crisis, and I was awake. Marriages have been based on worse contracts.
Marriage is, of all human arrangements, the chanciest.
We know all the things that can go wrong but are still delighted when they go right. We never tire of hearing how couples met, or of the obstacles they surmounted. We pride ourselves on being hard-boiled and pragmatic, but deep down we long to be gooey and romantic. As we search for new rituals for the millennium, burning the prenup is probably fated to be come a trend. Vintners will create special wines and bakers will devise special cakes.