[Persevero]

The most magnificent things take a toll. They are worth it.

[chajin]

In addition to the extremely weird, outwardly obvious stuff that happens to the rest of our bodies— gaining 60 pounds, for starters, or growing hair that is suddenly curly—we undergo a very startling brain change.

Any married man knows that the minute he becomes a father, he ceases being a partner. A husband who works on accepting this, married to a wife who works on minimizing it, will together grow into the kind of married couple who travel happily and successfully into old age. Otherwise, the marriage grows increasingly cold, with or without resultant adultery.