“We enter into all major relationships with no real clue of where we are going: marriage, birth, friendship. We carry maps we believe are true: our parents' relationship, what it says in the baby books, the landscape of our own childhood. These maps are approximate at best, dangerously misleading at worst.” UnderstandingRelationshipsHistoryAssumptionsDysfunctionPersonal HistoryMothers And Other Monsters Author:Maureen F. McHugh
“Gus couldn't handle it when she cried. For the thirty years of their marriage, when she'd had to cry--which was always at night, at least in her memory--she'd gone downstairs after he'd gone to sleep and sat on the couch and cried. She would have liked him to comfort her, but in marriage you learn what other people's limits are. And you learn your own.” RelationshipsMarriageTearsComfortLimitsCryingLimitationsMothers And Other Monsters Author:Maureen F. McHugh
