Article: SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE.(Fiction)

Linn Ullmann, daughter of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman, has written an intimate first novel that's bound for bedside tables everywhere

Sometimes I ask myself: When is a marriage over?

I'm sure it's long before the spouses agree that now it's over, now we have to split up - and then actually go through with a divorce.

So that's why I ask: When is a marriage over?

Is it when one of us thinks: I wish you were dead?

Is it when one of us says (for the very first time): I don't want to live with you anymore? You're ruining my life?

Is it when one of us stares at the ceiling, whispering: I'd do anything not to sleep with ...

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