I once said, in a public argument about a book that advocated for divorce, that if I found my wife reading it we would have a conversation about it. My wife is a surgeon and the family breadwinner; the idea that I could control her is faintly comic to anyone who knows us. None of … Continue reading The Same Paper: On Love, Control & the Limits of the Outside View
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Marriages Are Selected on Tuesdays
It is a Tuesday in November. One person loads the dishwasher wrong again. The other notices and says nothing. This is the data point that matters — not the first date, not the proposal, not the rehearsed charm over cocktails. Marriages are selected on Tuesdays. A thought experiment circulating online asks married people to reverse-engineer … Continue reading Marriages Are Selected on Tuesdays
