Well, fucking cheers to Brian Doyle. Now I'll never get married.
...That was a bit aggressive for the start of a post. I'm sorry.
I'll start over..
So I read a really great and creative essay the other day in my essay class. Don't let the intro to the post throw you off. It was inspired by Brian Doyle's "Irreconcilable Dissonance". It terrified me and made me never want to reach my late twenties, but the essay was awesome and I loved reading it. It's a story about love that involves no love. Doyle pointed out to me that it is what makes our marriages great that breaks them up. What makes our marriages great is the stupid shit that we have to put up with and handle each and every day. People commit to each other for the rest of their lives because they're ready to take that on, right?
Turns out the reasons that wives divorce their husbands is because they pick their noses and because they make pissing jokes on the fire hydrants on the sidewalk. And the reasons husbands divorce their wives is because they're "tired". It's all kind of a scary thought. It seems like the same stuff that makes the marriage work is what destroys it.
I guess "destroys" is a strong word. It depends on how seriously you take marriage. Anyways, it was a really good essay. Funny too. I recommend it, but only if you're single.
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