Valentine's Day

Of course there's a themed article in the Times today:

"...Happy love stories are hidden. Intimacy is not public. Real love stories are, therefore, private and secret. Moreover, the rhetoric around intimacy is that it ought to be private — unless you’re in trouble, and then the troubles ought to be “talked about”. "

"So happiness gets lived out behind closed doors, while troubled relationships become part of the discourse we hear publicly. In consequence we’ve come to believe that happy relationships are fairy stories; real relationships disappoint or fail. "

Happy Valentine's Day Russell, it's wonderful that you won the Battle of the Blogs 'Best Planner/Theorist blog' category.