Let me summarize the article: "Forgetting stuff every now and then isn't that bad."
Yes, that is indeed the entire content of the article. I apologize if the article is meant as a joke, I'm not entirely sure either way. This makes me wonder:
"[...]but she discovered an upside to forgetting. She had forgotten old rancors as well as President George W. Bush’s name."
Dunno, this article really hit home to me. This past year has been the first time I've been involved in a relationship that's gotten to the transactive memory phase, and that's kind of scary. On the one hand it frees up cognitive cycles to let you do things you never could have done otherwise, but on the other hand there are chunks of your life that are disappearing. (If I remember correctly, this is theorized to be one of the reasons why men are more likely to commit suicide after a breakup.)
I guess that's the way it's always like with our parents, but somehow it feels different with a significant other.
Yes, that is indeed the entire content of the article. I apologize if the article is meant as a joke, I'm not entirely sure either way. This makes me wonder:
"[...]but she discovered an upside to forgetting. She had forgotten old rancors as well as President George W. Bush’s name."
I also wonder why I keep reading newspapers.