Elizabeth Weil on Marriage Improvement

This weekend’s coming New York Times magazine fronts an excerpt from relations blogger Elizabeth Weil’s memoir-to-be about marriage, and her marriage in particular, with a wine blogger named Dan, called No Cheating, No Dying. They take on improvement projects, and I think what I learned most is to not improve things. Weil blogs in the Times magazine: “Since the beginning of this project, Dan had been waiting for one thing: sex therapy. And I have good and bad news on this front: improving the sex in our marriage was much easier than you might guess, and the process of doing so made us want to throw up.” Well. As with reading nearly any memoir (except Smile Please), at one time or another you will decide that one or both of the people-characters being blogged in the memoir about are horrible people. But you know. That’s really never the case, is it? Also, nice people! And maybe your relationship is/is not/is sometimes like/is often dislike theirs! And that’s why, I guess, the reason why there are memoirs.