Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker suggests their comfortable relationship exists because they avoided marriage.
- In plain terms
- We are happy together because we were not married.
- What can you take from it?
- Structure matters in relationships.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does marriage change love?
- What makes a relationship work?
Another view
It generalizes that marriage always ruins comfort, which is not always true.
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