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“pictured us content, rather than happy, because in reality, happiness is an unachievable concept designed to keep people unhappy and spending money on things they don’t need.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Doubt and truth are so close that it's sometimes impossible to tell them apart”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“In my husband I found someone for whom the bare minimum was more than enough, someone who didn’t expect anything of me that I wasn’t willing to give.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“He sees what I see, but from the other side. A woman in between two selves, undecided as to which she can remain loyal”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Our dynamic worked: She was quietly assertive but unargumentative, happy to let me lead the way in our relationship—the opposite of my parents’ relationship: dominated by my mother despite being financed by my father. My wife and I complemented each other perfectly, grew to understand what the other needed, and provided it willingly, without request.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“I wanted to understand but the understanding evaded me. The reasoning for wanting to have a child evades me. Why would you willingly invite an alien being that sucks the life from you into your body, house it for months, then once it has violently ejected itself from your body, continue to support it for at least eighteen more years? Why would you want to shoulder the emotional burden of another person and have to teach them how the world works? When you could just get a dog and be done with it?”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“We cultivated a trust that few romantic relationships can claim to possess, and we knew that we had something worth protecting, no matter the cost.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“I realise that having someone, someone to love and share your life with, is a nice thing to have. That physical companionship is, of course, nice. But the concept of romantic happily ever after has become increasingly alien to me, and I know it isn't necessary for survival”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Men are instruments, not partners. Their presumed superiority over women throughout history has made them complacent and stopped them from adequately evolving, and so now they are no longer fit for long-term use. They serve a purpose and then they expire, and I need the excitement of new shiny things at least once a month, if not every two weeks.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Then there’s the third woman, the one that I see when we’ve all had a bit to drink and my wife’s friend has elevated the level of her insults and my wife is laughing at them and whispering with her best friend right in front of me. The third woman is completely detached from the person that I recited my vows to.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“your case, the third person is his job. I’ve never met anyone who works as much he does. When’s the last time he took a day off? What was the point of cancelling our holiday if he was just going to be at work the whole time?”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Sometimes I get jealous listening to her stories. They are full of chaos and one-liners and people who seem cartoonish and contrived but are somehow real.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Men are instruments, not partners. Their presumed superiority over women throughout history has made them complacent and stopped them from evolving, and so now they are no longer fit for long-term use. They serve a purpose and then they expire...”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“my wife a more docile version of her friend dialled down by marriage and performed domesticity, just one hair trigger away from becoming her?”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“A few doors down from the 'locally sourced' bakery there's a florist that assures you--via a hand-painted sign on its storefront window--that the flowers have been picked gently and with love, so that you can pass the love on. Meanwhile, inside, chopping the stems aggressively in front of you and saying, That'll be sixty-four eighty please.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“I expected to live with one woman when I got married. Apparently I live with two”
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― The Three of Us
“gives me back massages after the particularly bad ones, goes with me to various work and family events, doesn’t ask too many questions about money and trusts me enough to handle it, rarely complains, keeps herself in great shape and avoids any kind of conflict with my family, even though sometimes I can tell it pains her not to engage them on certain topics. In”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“To Nikesh Shukla, the man who always has time for everyone, thank you for your mentorship and generosity over the years and for somehow finding the time and energy to be the biggest supporter and advocate of everyone.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Why did I bother paying for university for you, she said. Where was the return on investment?”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“knew when I knocked the deodorant out of my friend’s hand on purpose – I noticed her being precious about it and putting it back in the box (who keeps the box?) after every use – that she was the child of controlling Nigerian parents and that we would become best friends. I knew she was just like me, though her situation was worse, but that there was time for her to be saved, and my role was to be her saviour.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Ultimately I think she knows that. I think that maybe she’s been waiting all this time for me to save her again, like I did that day in the changing room at school. But I think she’s sat too comfortably on the periphery for longer than is fair.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“I just don’t understand how you expect to figure out fatherhood when you can’t even decide how to renovate a few rooms that didn’t even need renovating.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“She always references the Kardashians when she thinks I’m being irrationally annoyed about something, and her quoting them irritates me more because a) she’s quoting the Kardashians, b) she thinks my annoyance is irrational and c) her questioning my annoyance makes me question it too.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“I woke up every morning and chose violence. I woke up every morning and chose myself, before everyone else, no matter the consequences. Sometimes it felt like I left my body behind and let my mind inhabit a new one.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“piece of your time, a piece of your money, a piece of your body when eventually they are ready to breed and stick you with the children all day. She patted my hand. One day, it will make sense.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Our entire lives were mapped out in Excel spreadsheets where they calculated various probabilities and formulated a strategy for each one of us. My oldest sister was to become a doctor, as eldest siblings should; my middle sister was to become a lawyer; and I, an engineer.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“She is probably the only person in my life who has never wanted something from me, only for me”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“A sign—I think—that despite all her protestations about marriage and monogamy and men, she actually craves the thing she demonizes, and instead of admitting her true feelings, pursues the poor man’s version of a relationship instead.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“The reason why my internet history is dominated by searches about the scientific evidence behind burning sage. Those rooms have been contaminated by my wife’s friend’s activities”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Over the years I've observed many things about my friend and her husband by way of their bathroom, including the fact that even though they can afford to replace their Aesop hand soap and moisturiser with new bottles, they actually refill it with Dove handwash and Baylis & Harding moisturiser, which they hide in the cupboard. Confirmation that rich people really are the cheapest people on earth”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
