Why do people stay together? Putting aside ‘for the sake of the children’, and ‘the habit of years’ and ‘economic reasons’ as lawyers’ nonsense – it’s not much more – if one really does try to find out why it is that people don’t leave each other, one discovers a mystery.
Victoria Hislop, The Story: Love, Loss and the Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories
love, marriage, relationship