on Marriage & Affairs

Growing up I devoured Disney ideas of love. I still like the Hollywood idea that a man would risk his pride to show the woman he loves that he loves her via a grand romantic gesture, while still remaining somewhat aloof and masculine. Yet, as the daughter of two people who have been separated, fairly amicably, for for 10 years, I have become more and more suspicious of, and unsure of my desire to get married. This is something I will maybe blog about again in the future.

For today, however, I'll just post this thought from Amanda Palmer's blog. I know little about her apart from being fairly sure she's quite creatively and musically "off beat" (thank you to my friend Amy for that adjective) but this article on her marriage is very interesting.

I like this sentence also:

"and most affairs burn hard and fast and then leave you with the smoldering debris of reality."