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Boring Marriages vs. Failed Relationships

Hanna, just so you know, I wasn’t calling your marriage “boring”; Cristina Nehring was. No, in all seriousness, I’m glad you posted in response to Loh and to my piece about The Vindication of Love. Your point that for every crazy artist in a series of chaotic relationships there’s one in a stable partnership is well-taken. Virginia Woolf, no slouch in the achievement department, may have had one of the most boring marriages of all time. But she liked it. Meanwhile, many partnerships you mention—like Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne—were hardly boring. (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)