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Hanna, just so you know, I wasn’t calling your marriage “boring”; Cristina Nehring was. No, in all seriousness, I’m glad you posted in response to Loh and to my piece about The Vindication of Love.
Your point that for every crazy artist in a series of chaotic
relationships there’s one in a stable partnership is well-taken.
Virginia Woolf, no slouch in the achievement department, may have had
one of the most boring marriages of all time. But she liked it.
Meanwhile, many partnerships you mention—like Joan Didion and John
Gregory Dunne—were hardly boring. (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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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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