The Same Paper: On Love, Control & the Limits of the Outside View

🫧 Open on Bubbles I once said, in a public argument about a book that advocated for divorce, that if I found my wife reading it we would have a conversation about it. My wife is a surgeon and the family breadwinner; the idea that I could control her is faintly comic to anyone who knows us. None of that mattered. Within minutes I had been assigned a role — controlling husband — and the assignment was made not from any fact about my marriage but from the shape of the sentence. A man wanting a say in what his