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It’s one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same. We marry the wrong person. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be a little bit wrong for us. We know that perfection is not on the cards. The fault isn’t entirely our own.

In the Classical age one might have considered criteria such as how much land a prospective marriage partner has. In the Romantic age, which still dominates our culture, we place great confidence in intuition – a sense that there is such a thing as ‘the one’, that you understand one another perfectly and that you both never want to sleep with anyone else again.

The time has come to bury the Romantic intuition-based view of marriage and learn to practice and rehearse marriage as one would ice-skating or violin playing, activities no more deserving of systematic periods of instruction.

A Collection of Three Essays:

  • Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
  • When is One Ready to Get Married?
  • How Love Stories Ruin Our Love Lives

Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

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    Publisher: The School of Life Press
    Publication Date: 27/04/2017
    ISBN13: 9780995573628, 978-0995573628
    ISBN10: 099557362X

    Number of Pages: 80

    Non Fiction , Health & Wellbeing

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    It’s one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same. We marry the wrong person. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be a little bit wrong for us. We know that perfection is not on the cards. The fault isn’t entirely our own.

    In the Classical age one might have considered criteria such as how much land a prospective marriage partner has. In the Romantic age, which still dominates our culture, we place great confidence in intuition – a sense that there is such a thing as ‘the one’, that you understand one another perfectly and that you both never want to sleep with anyone else again.

    The time has come to bury the Romantic intuition-based view of marriage and learn to practice and rehearse marriage as one would ice-skating or violin playing, activities no more deserving of systematic periods of instruction.

    A Collection of Three Essays:

    • Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
    • When is One Ready to Get Married?
    • How Love Stories Ruin Our Love Lives

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