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After our debate on this site about Sandra Tsing Loh's Atlantic piece about her liberating divorce and Christina Nehring's book about the death of passion in the modern marriage, I kept waiting for someone to write about the other side. Now Elizabeth Weil has finally done it in her upcoming New York Times Magazine story,
taking us deep inside her relatively happy, companionate union. This is
a truly fascinating piece about what you discover when you put a
perfectly good thing through the test ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).
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Anne Kingston wrote a Maclean’s cover story on “the case against having kids.” Then she wrote another Maclean’s story—on all the hate mail she received for making the case against having kids ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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In the past few days, on my own website, my life has been reduced to
vanilla pudding. I am dull, devoid of passion, pedestrian, the human
equivalent of a “yawning chubby house cat,” says Meghan, summarizing Cristina Nehring’s new book Vindication of Love,
the caged bird who forgot how to sing. This is because I am trapped in
something that goes by the clinical name of “companionate marriage,”
and worse, I like it... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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