the thin line between optimism and delusion…

"’It seems he had some naive conception of a women ‘fit to be his wife,’ a particular conception that I used to run into a lot and that always drove me wild. He demanded a girl who’d never been kissed and who liked to sew and sit home and pay tribute to his self-esteem. And I’ll bet a hat if he’d gotten an idiot to sit and be stupid with him he’s tearing out on the side with some much speedier lady.’
‘I’d be sorry for his wife.’
‘I wouldn’t. Think what an ass she’s be not to realize it before she married him. He’s the sort whose idea of honoring and respecting a women would be never to give her any excitement. With the best of intentions, he was deep in the dark ages.’"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gloria describing an old beau,
The Beautiful and the Damned

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