title: The Weekend Marriage: Abundant Love in a Time-Starved World
author:  Mira Kirshenbaum 
description: If you're afraid of "turning into one of those couples who go into therapy because they bicker all the time,"[p. 120] search no more for marital advice. According to bestselling author Kirshenbaum, the ever-increasing divorce rates in the U.S. aren't due to the often-reported irreconcilable differences, but rather a lack of "quality time" together. As overused as that term is, Kirshenbaum (<i>Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay</i>) persuasively argues that the American state of matrimony is all too often the victim of what she calls "Murphy's law" of marriage: "The less time you have together, the more things go wrong in your relationship."[p. 3]
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  # William's Wedding
  
  
  ### Sarah Orne Jewett
  
  
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  THE hurry of life in a large town, the constant putting aside of
  
  
  preference to yield a most unsatisfactory activity, began to vex me,
  
  
  and one day I took the train, and only left it for the eastward-bound
  
  
  boat. Carlyle says somewhere that the only happiness a man ought to ask
  
  
  for is happiness enough to get his work done; and against this the
  
  
  complexity and futile ingenuity of social life seems a conspiracy. But
  
  
  the first salt wind from the east, the first sight of a lighthouse set
  
  
  boldly on its outer rock, the flash of a gull, the waiting procession
  
  
  of seaward-bound firs on an island, made me feel solid and definite
  
  
  again, ins