Getting What You Want & Still Feeling Peeved

More on the trickster contract we call Marriage

Spring Scattering Stars (1927) by Edwin Blashfield.

Dear Beautiful Friends,

We are the funniest, strangest, cutest, perplexing creatures. And I mean it as a compliment.

I was thinking about how much of our lives are motored by a state of desire.

Take, for example, the general category of:

Marriage - Partner - Mate - Life Companion - Relationship - Lover

How many of you, like me, started the dreaming, fantasizing, compulsively-talking-with-friends, the wild longing, the visions of a romantic life—all at a relatively young age?

In junior high, I spent many afternoons with my friend Mary Jane, lounging in her basement on yellow bean bag chairs and listening wistfully to “America’s Greatest Hits” while dreaming of the boys we liked (and doing nothing about it).