A wife can simultaneously love and hate her husband with equal truth

Evidence

There were times when he was frightening—really frightening—when she just had not screamed at the top of her voice: “You are killing me.” And at those times she had longed to say the most coarse, hateful things … Yes, yes, it was true … For all her love and respect and admiration she hated him … It had never been so plain to her as it was at this moment. There were all her feelings for him, sharp and defined, one as true as the other. And there was this other, this hatred, just as real as the rest. She could have done her feelings up in little packets and given them to Stanley. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1287

Categorization

• SHARE: The ‘feelings up in little packets and given them to Stanley’ image is vivid enough to send to someone writing about ambivalent intimacy.
• FICTION: The packet-of-feelings image could seed a story device — a wife literally handing her hatred over as a gift.