How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

by Harrison Scott Key

a good marriage often looks like a joke to those outside it.

The reality is that every marriage is a partnership of two broken assholes with good intentions and varying degrees of ability to deliver.

It was shocking how good I was at keeping this secret life a secret. But then, I was good at keeping things inside. A pro. Been doing it all my life.

I’m doing it because I love her and she loves my help—and I know this (and this is key) because she finally found the words to tell me how much she loves my help, and I finally found ears to hear.

One of my favorites, Alain de Botton, once wrote, “Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.”