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“Behind those messages was the one even he hadn't allowed himself to consider: I may not be with you forever. Though she was ultimately the one to leave, in some ways he was already gone.”

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Ways of Leaving

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“Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh' (Genesis 2:24 NRSV). This radically upside-down statement would have shocked the original readers of Genesis and should shock us too. I don't know of any culture where men are depicted as clinging to their wives. Certainly within a patriarchal world, this is getting things backwards. There the wife leaves her parents and is absorbed into her husband's family.”