“Harry, why does your generation always have to find the right person? Why can’t you learn to live with the wrong person? Sooner or later, everyone’s wrong. Love isn’t the most important thing, Harry, far from it.”
Charles Baxter
in "Fensted’s Mother,"
a short story in the
Atlantic Monthly
Love has enjoyed a tremendous press in recent decades, but it is possible that it has been overvalued, that it isn’t the only great thing in life, just one of the great things.