Maggie Gallagher never fails to identify herself as a 'marriage expert' (exact words). I'm not exactly sure what qualifies her for that title. If her nostrums for American marriage were taken seriously, she would BECOME an expert--in leeching the joy, spontaneity, fun, and general feeling-for-life that exists in real, human marriages. Under the Gallagher-ian regime, marriage is not a statement of lasting love, companionship, lust, and mutuality between two human souls but rather a smothering shroud which would benefit society if we were all to just wrap ourselves in and then go to sleep and stop asking inconvenient questions for the rest of our lives.The choice is clear; You can be a reasoned, cultured person, interested in life and open to the possibility of loving another person. Or you can get a Maggie Gallagher-style marriage.