For better or for even better?
Can you — or should you — make a good marriage even better? Writer Elizabeth Weil, a mother of two, runs an experiment on her own union and writes about what she found in an engrossing article for the New York Times’ Magazine. It may be unenlightened of me to say, but I kind of think if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
Tags: marriage
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December 10th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Rachel Turiel says:It *was* an engrossing article, all 10 long pages of it.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Kid Row says:I was perusing the comments on the article (of which there were many — it’s still on the top 10 most popular articles) and was amused by the posters who called it a bunch of bourgeois navel-gazing, which I wouldn’t say is a baseless criticism. Mostly I take issue with the assertion that the way you “work” on a marriage is through a bunch of expensive experts and self-help books. I really don’t believe that any truely good marriage got that way without work. It’s just that the work is rewarding so its self-reinforcing.