As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles, ' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep . Edith Wharton
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When he said, “As he paid the hansom and followed his wife’s long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage,” he was referring to the first six months of marriage. He was trying to reassure himself that the first six months are always difficult. It has been proven that half of all marriages end within the first year. The reason for this is that new couples are still learning how to deal with each other, which is why so many couples go through a lot of arguments.

Source: The Age Of Innocence

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