Marriage story lines and insights

Reagan 2022-04-23 07:01:26

1. This system is to save people from this misfortune 2. Perhaps there is no real communication between human beings, and two independent individuals can never truly understand each other 3. People will always ask you to different and higher standards 4. You are one with your selfishness and you can't tell which is selfishness yourself 5. You work hard for what you don't need 6. Whatever happens, it's temporary 7. The process will be ugly 8. It will all come to an end, whether we win or lose 9. I will always follow the truth, no matter where it will take us 10. What was once true is ruthlessly denied and torn 11. Waiting is the hardest Part 12. From "us" back to "me" 13. Not without you, not with you" 14. There are things that love can't solve, and love that things can't solve 15. When we choose to be with someone Life is killing other possibilities

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  • Nora Fanshaw: People don't accept mothers who drink too much wine and yell at their child and call him an asshole. I get it. I do it too. We can accept an imperfect dad. Let's face it, the idea of a good father was only invented like 30 years ago. Before that, fathers were expected to be silent and absent and unreliable and selfish, and can all say we want them to be different. But on some basic level, we accept them. We love them for their fallibilities, but people absolutely don't accept those same failings in mothers. We don't accept it structurally and we don't accept it spiritually. Because the basis of our Judeo-Christian whatever is Mary, Mother of Jesus, and she's perfect. She's a virgin who gives birth, unwaveringly supports her child and holds his dead body when he's gone. And the dad isn't there. He didn't even do the fucking. God is in heaven. God is the father and God didn't show up. So, you have to be perfect, and Charlie can be a fuck up and it doesn't matter. You will always be held to a different, higher standard. And it's fucked up, but that's the way it is.

  • Bert Spitz: You know what this is like? This is like that joke about the woman at the hairdresser, she's going to Rome. You know this?

    Charlie: I don't.

    Bert Spitz: This woman is at her hairdresser, and she says, "I'm going to Rome on Holiday." And he says, "Oh, really? What airline are you taking?" She says, "Alitalia." He says, "Alitalia? Are you crazy? That's the worst - that's terrible. Don't take that. Where you gonna stay?" She says, "I'm gonna stay at the Hassler." "The Hassler? What, are you kidding? They're renovating the Hassler. You'll hear hammering all night long. You won't sleep. What are you gonna see?" She says, "I think I'm gonna try to go the Vatican." "The Vatican? You'll be standing in line all day long. You'll never get to see anything."

    Charlie: I'm sorry, Bert, am I paying for this joke?