It Could Be the End of Curiosity That Dooms Love

When we lose the desire to learn any more about our partner, is the relationship doomed? That's the idea at the heart of author and chaplain Kerry Egan's "Modern Love" column in the New York Times, which starts with a story about how her husband traumatized her the day they left for their honeymoon by informing her that, on the night of his bachelor party, he and four other members of the wedding party had gotten into a drunken fight at a bar and ended up in jail. "Our marriage is based on a lie!" a crying Egan responded. 

But, upon reflection, she's learned that "not one of us ever has all the information when we get married."

"The state of being married is coming to the realization that the person you have pledged your life to is, at heart, a mystery. There will always be things unknown to you," she writes. 

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