Marrying The Wrong Person Is ...

... not as bad as you might think.

The marriage of reason was not, in hindsight, reasonable at all; it was often expedient, narrow-minded, snobbish and exploitative. That is why what has replaced it — the marriage of feeling — has largely been spared the need to account for itself.

Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton) is the author of the novel “The Course of Love.”