Alain de Botton on Marrying the Wrong Person
In his popular 2016 opinion article Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person in the New York Times, Alain de Botton writes: "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. Partly, it’s because we have a bewildering array of problems that emerge when we try to get close to others. We seem normal only to those who don’t know us very well.” [...] "The problem is that before
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