Hi again. I got married last month — a wonderful and joyous experience, one about which I genuinely cannot shut up. But for a while before I got married, I felt a kind of seasick ambivalence about whether I wanted to, or if I even wanted to want to. The reasons were many, and complex, and personal. But they were not terribly unique. And so I read a lot of writing that dug into the questions I had: about the politics of marriage, about the out-of-control wedding-industrial complex, about feminist responses to the institution itself; about the ways American culture prioritizes the
lmao -- also i love you and i will always cherish the conversation we had about marriage in december 2019 ❤️