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Do You Want to Be Right—Or Do You Want to Be Happy?

Objective reality has no place in intimate relationships, like marriages. Just ask the experts.

It was at the bedside of a dying friend that I faced the absurdity of my overwhelming need to be right. I'd met Mary Lou when I was an eager, insecure teenager of recently divorced parents. The epitome of downtown intellectual ...

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