Married Couples

It was as if

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It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they … Read more

Here\\’s the thing: the

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Here’s the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there … Read more

In the first place,

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In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is … Read more

What\\’s missing from the

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What’s missing from the online experience is community. Married couples are still going to need something to do on Tuesday nights, right? And it’s not going to be individually retiring to their offices to watch on their computers. It’s: \”We just put the meat loaf dishes away, let’s go watch television.\” It’s going to happen. … Read more