Hints for Lovers by Arnold Haultain
page 159 of 191 (83%)
page 159 of 191 (83%)
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Reformers of marriage laws should seek a preventative, not a cure; since It is doubtful whether the ills of matrimony are really curable, for, generally speaking, Matrimonial incompatibility is a malignant, not a benignant, disease; its prognosis is doubtful; nor does it run a regular course. * * * Many are the women who, soon after marriage, silently turn over in their minds this little problem: whether it were better to marry the man they loved but who did not love them; or to marry the man who loved them but to whom they were indifferent. And The man a woman ultimately marries will give her no clue to the solution. And for the following reasons: (i) He, fond wight, does not know that any such problem is agitating her little brain; and (ii) She, of course, dare not divulge the factors of the problem. In short, Most marriages are brought about by the following simple, yet fateful, consideration: The man marries the woman he wants; the woman marries the man who wants her. The two propositions, though apparently identical, often produce results very far from identical. And yet, |
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