Monday, May 17, 2010

About That First Marriage . . .

Lots of people are surprised to find out I was married once before. It's true, and it was when I was teething, I believe, so I had a lot of off-days during the marriage. Reflecting and writing about it has been a challenge, even though the whole thing ended fairly quietly. My very brief, very superficial take on why the first one didn't work:

Tacit and overt. There’s symmetry there, a yin yang quality in which the opposites do their flowy thing, the universe is balanced, and the Big Ohm is achieved. However, when yin’s notion of reckless abandon is trying the peach syrup at IHOP while yang is back home in the basement trying do-it-yourself taxidermy with roadkill, the dynamic is seriously out of whack. Yang will act out just to be a pill, yin will pull in to avoid the unwanted side effects. The curve is warped, and in our case, it was beginning to throw the entire circle off.

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