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You can, after all, produce an orgasm yourself if that's what you want, so we must go to bed for something more.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
It is not possible for one person to meet all of another's needs and marriage partners who expect this soon find each other wanting.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
Divorce is very expensive, both economically and psychologically as well, but it probably isn't any more so than living with someone who isn't really on your side.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
It's impossible for men and women who love each other not to hurt each other now and then, but most women would settle happily for a man who tried not to cause the same hurt twice.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
You tend to have far more real, intense friendships when you are single, perhaps because you can be more honest when you do not have the marriage or someone else's feelings to protect.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
But women often find their husbands don't love them for the things they value in themselves, and part of the charm of an affair is you can give what you want, and need only give if you choose.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
Nobody really wants to spend life with someone who has no other choice, and children who have been raised by a mother who gave up her life for them almost always spend years on an analyst's couch learning to spit in her eye.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
While single women may not have a man they can count on or call at four in the night, they do have the knowledge that when a man comes to see them he wants to be with them. And while he may come less often, he will really be there when he does.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
It's very important to decode your own messages, like saying "I feel angry" instead of kicking the cat, and people who learn to do this find they are misunderstood less often and, as a fringe benefit, are clawed by fewer cats.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
If one of the problems of marriage is that safety can lead to complacency, then one of the advantages of being single is that one is never safe enough to grow complacent, and constantly having to prove oneself often leads to growth.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
It's in the fight, in the striving, in the mountains unclimbed that fulfillment lies, so if you have nothing to strive for, you have nothing to make you happy. When it comes to "for better" or "for worse," "for better" is often harder on a marriage.
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)
I have been furious with men who have expected me to be faithful, and I have been even more furious with those who did not, and once I screamed at a man whom I loved more than I'd intended to, "If I'm faithful to you, what bloody business is it of yours?"
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)