Charles Dickens on being unhappily married (1858)
Marriage requires time, energy, empathy. It requires mental, physical, emotional and spiritual support. A successful marriage forces two people to put the success of the marriage above their individual successes. No institution that I know of forces an individual to abandon selfishness so completely. For it to work, individuality itself needs to be abandoned.<p>So it&#x27;s not really surprising that so many talented, ambitious people have had failing marriages.