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The speaker is saying that married life leaves so little time for the relationship that husband and wife can end up missing the connection they hoped marriage would create. The second sentence uses irony to suggest that the promise behind getting married has been lost in the reality of being married. It reads as a complaint about how marriage can crowd out intimacy.
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About Erica Jong
American novelist, satirist, and poet
Erica Jong is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known especially for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. That book drew wide attention for its frank treatment of female sexuality and became part of the cultural moment of second-wave feminism. It sold more than 37 million copies worldwide, and remains the work most closely associated with her name.
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