You are not enough people.

This quote from Kurt Vonnegut popped into my head yesterday, so I thought I’d post the excerpt from his book, A Man Without a Country:

Most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. the groom gets one more pal, but it’s a woman. The woman gets one more person to talk to about everything, but it’s a man.

When a couple has an argument nowadays, they may think it’s about money or power or sex or how to raise the kids or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though without realizing it, is this: “You are not enough people!”