What is partnership for? - by Ava - bookbear express

I’ve been thinking about this Rachel Aviv piece about how Agnes Callard left her husband after falling in love with her grad student nonstop since I read it. As well as this piece on platonic life partnerships breaking up from The Cut. In different ways, both feel like they get at the the questions that have kept me up many nights in the past few years: What is partnership, what is marriage for? What are we aspiring to and where do we end up? * Two passages from the essay about Callard that really struck me: “In “Parallel Lives,” a study of five couples in the Victorian era, the literary critic Phyllis Rose observes that we tend to disparage talk about marriage as gossip. “But gossip may be the beginning of moral inquiry, the low end of the platonic ladder which leads to self-understanding,” she writes. “We are desperate for information about how other people live because we want to know how to live ourselves, yet we are taught to see this desire as an illegitimate form of prying.” Ros

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