“We place such demands on our partners, and become so unreasonable around them, because we have faith that someone who understands obscure parts of us, whose presence solves so many of our woes, must somehow also be able to fix everything about our lives. We exaggerate the other’s powers in a curious sort of homage – heard in adult life decades down the line – to a small child’s awe at their own parents’ apparently miraculous capacities.”