But there really is only one conclusion to draw from this story: marriage doesn’t work. Well, Bill and Melinda vaccinated the world. Unlike Bill and Melinda, though, I’ve always felt that way, and that’s the only difference between us. Marriage, in its current incarnation, doesn’t work, and who better than me – someone who has been happily not married for ever – to come up with the alternatives? But if couples could join a cult that wasn’t about sex but free childcare, their marriage would last for ever.

Source: The Guardian May 15, 2021 07:52 UTC