The Perfect - Marriage

We’ve all seen them: the filtered vacation photos, the anniversary captions dripping with honey, the couple who finishes each other’s sentences. Society sells us a very specific image of the “perfect marriage”—flawless, effortless, and eternally passionate.

Marriage is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other. Humor is the lubricant that keeps the engine from seizing up. So here’s my revised definition: the perfect marriage

But after a decade of marriage—through job losses, sleepless newborn nights, a global pandemic in close quarters, and the slow, unglamorous work of becoming two different people than the ones who said “I do”—I’ve realized something counterintuitive: We’ve all seen them: the filtered vacation photos,