Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

A Cure for Infatuation

Marriage is an excellent cure for infatuation.

It is also a test whether the infatuation was something more. If the marriage lasts and deepens, then it was; if not, then it wasn't.

To be infatuated is to be rendered fatuous, silly.  Not that infatuation is all bad.  A love that doesn't begin with it is not much of a love.  The silly love song That's Amore well captures the delights of love's incipience.  But fools rush in where wise men never go/But wise men never fall in love/so how are they to know?


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