Irritating love

So many bail the marriage boat because it's overweighted | Andrée Seu

Groucho Marx on love: "Everyone says 'I love you,' though just what they said it for I never knew. It's just inviting trouble for the poor sucker who says 'I love you'" (Animal Crackers, 1930).

Paul on love: "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" (1 Corinthians 13, a.d. 70).

There you have it: Groucho and Paul agreeing on love and trouble. Who needs to be "patient" or "kind" where there is no one testing patience or kindness? Why exhort against being "irritable" if there are no irritating elements around? What is there to "bear" where the beloved is eminently lovable, or "believe" where there is no risk in trusting, or "hope" where relationship is already perfected?

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February 12, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 6

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