A French Model’s Take On Love

(Page 2 of 2) India and the Indians’ vision of the world and how they weren’t individualistic—wasn’t at all what would have interested me at 18.”“I think people get married too quickly and divorce too quickly,” she says. “I’ve often noticed that women blame their husbands for the very things that attracted them in the first place. They’ll say, ‘He’s too poetic, too intellectual, incapable of facing his past, which he’s dragging behind him.’“Lots of women are waiting for a Prince Charming, and that’s a mistake. I don’t think all the clichés like meeting your lover on the platform of a train station, and so on, have much to do with the couple on a day-to-day basis. I think one has the right to hate one’s husband on Friday and adore him on Saturday. It’s this paradoxical side to life that we just haven’t learned—there are ups and downs.”Olivia Snaije is a reporter for the Daily Star of Lebanon. She lives in Paris.