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Anne and I tried to stay married for our daughter, but it was ending our romance that truly saved our family
By Jonathan Weiler*
Jonathan Weiler, a faculty member at UNC Chapel Hill, is a regular political columnist for the Independent Weekly of North Carolina and a frequent contributor to Huffington Post. He and his former wife Anne Menkens are currently working on a book about divorce.
On a sunny June day in 2009, I attended the wedding of my former wife, Anne. The small church in Chapel Hill, N.C., contained many people who were at our own wedding 14 years earlier, including my mother, who sat beside me. One person who had not been in attendance that day was our 11-year-old daughter, Lillian. My heart swelled with pride as she delivered a reading from “The Velveteen Rabbit” as part of the ceremony. My former wife and I have often laughed about the readings we chose for our own wedding, which all, somehow, had to do with not getting too close. Khalil Gibran’s “On Marriage” included the evocative phrase, “make not a bond of love …”
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* more biographical information on Jonathan Weiler Director of Undergraduate Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Studies Director of Global Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, where he received his PhD in Political Science, in 1999. He has taught courses in Russian Politics, Human Rights, European Politics, and Comparative Development among others. His first book, Human Rights in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform, was published in 2004 by Lynne Rienner Publishers. His second, Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics, co-authored with Marc Hetherington, was published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press.