Status Updates From The Age of Innocence

‘He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.‘
Times haven’t changed.

‘Don’t you see? I can’t love you unless I give you up.’
The frustration of this line!