August 1, 2008

For Marriage, the Honeymoon's Over

By CARLIN ROMANO

A scholar unveils an institution's troubled history

Till death does the confusion last.

Can anyone, in or out of a marriage, explain what it is? Many think of it as the mystical melting of two people, a man and a woman, into "one flesh." (Try not to visualize Sir Paul and Heather, or Christie and Peter.)

Romantic or ridiculous?

Many also think of it as a contract between the same two kinds of people, in which both retain individual rights and absorb new

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