We think of marriage as a relationship between two mature people … who love each other and settle in to constancy and continuity. And, in fact, those two people are growing and changing all the time… Marriage requires a constant rhythm of adaptation between two people who are changing.
Magnificent On Being conversation with linguist and anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, the daughter of anthropology power-couple Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.
Complement this particular sentiment with Wendell Berry on marriage, form, and freedom, then see Bateson’s famous mother, Margaret Mead, on the fundamental fluidity of human sexuality.
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