Happy Wife, Happy Life, and What's so Bad About That?

Turns out not everyone hates being married! Salon.com's Aaron Traister sent up a flare to ask if he's the only one out there who enjoys being married.

A somewhat sad state of affairs (literally) has our culture in a tailspin over what it being married means these days.

Turn on the sitcoms, it 's still the bedraggled wife nagging her husband, like it's been since the sitcoms were in black and white.

Go to the movies and you'll usually see blatant, romanticized infidelities (Unfaithful with Diane Lane) or  near-misses (I Think I Love My Wife with Chris Rock). At other turns (Revolutionary Road), getting married could be almost the single worst thing you could do to your life.

But out of the ash heap of a million burned little black books comes Traister's herald that he loves his wife, loves his life and loves the zigs and zags, snafus and snags that came with it.

It is refreshing. It's a reminder that just like Paris Hilton movies and Britney Spears' breakdowns, the contrarian opinion that "marriage sucks" is not the only one out there. And while it sticks around on the periphery, you don't always have to look at it.

Sometimes you can look up and see what Traister sees: that it's not so bad after all. That really, it's pretty good.

Read the Salon piece here.

Photo courtesy of Lynne Lancaster @sxc.hu