by
Katie Roiphe
[...] I have notice the couples most interested in the grand tour of my tragedy are often in couples therapy. They are often in that phase where they hire a babysitter once a week so that they can sit across from each other at a restaurant and distract themselves from the vast distance, the dullness, that has risen up between them with the bustle of menus and waiters. [...]
the rest of the essay is kinda unnecessarily polemic but this line was great (though maybe the language use could have been spiced up a bit)