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"So they have a great relationship — well, bravo!
"I didn't think that described our relationship well enough".
"I don't think I directed their relationship well enough, actually," says Batmanglij. "The chemistry between them was so strong.
The hidden voice in this dialogue belonged to Susan Blow, a brilliant former patient with whom Putnam developed a deep personal relationship (well tolerated by Putnam's wife, herself an innovative social theorist).
Geoff Dyer puts this adversarial relationship well in "Out of Sheer Rage," his book about, around, and through D. H. Lawrence, in which he makes an argument against general cirrhosis of the novel, and in favor of the healthy freedom of the essay: Increasingly, the process of novelisation goes hand in hand with a strait-jacketing of the material's expressive potential.
First, that it was some sort of anti-daycare (and, by extension, anti-working mother) screed; and that it might over-fetishize the relationship between a toy and a particular child, to the extent of moralizing about the need to sustain that relationship well past the point of playability.
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Certainly, some characteristics predict relationship well-being.
To be sure, similarity on some dimensions, like race and religion, does predict relationship well-being.
Yet just as we are warned that "being inattentive to attractive relationship alternatives can enhance relationship well-being," so the opposite must be true.
According to a 2008 meta-analysis of 313 studies, similarity on personality traits and attitudes had no effect on relationship well-being in established relationships.
Men and women who are inclined to survey the field and check people out may be best left to their devices — though the study's authors emphasize that earlier research has shown that "being inattentive to attractive relationship alternatives can enhance relationship well-being".
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