Unity at the expense of equality:
"'One' may mean no more than this: one of the partners has taken control
of the marriage, and that one will dominates the other. The second will has
become silent or submissive or extinct. But this isn't oneness; this is one
alone. Indeed, there is no disharmony in such a marriage: no arguing, no
clashes, no division of opinions, just an evident and absolute order. But
neither is there harmony of any kind. The drum has overwhelmed the flute.
Then, though one person may fluorish and grow, two do not, for the second is
always shaped by the character and personhood of the first. And therefore
the marriage as a marriage does not develop either. The marriage has
become the servant of one of the partners."
Walter Wangerin, Jr. As for Me and My House, Th. Nelson (1990).
Return to trilogic diagram.