The Women Lincoln Loved

[RJNorton]

(05-21-2017 06:48 AM)Gene C Wrote:  It's interesting to image what Mary, an educated, high society, attractive, somewhat flirty extroverted personality saw in a humble, uneducated, homely, poor, somewhat socially awkward, back woods young man.

Since Mary and Abraham had a somewhat on again - off again romance, what did she see in him that most other single young ladies didn't, that kept her from moving on and forming a serious love interest with some one else?

I just think she loved him (and he loved her the same) like nobody else she ever met. She loved him so much that the love trumped the knowledge that he "was deficient in those little links which make up the great chain of womans happiness." (quote from Mary Owens)

I cannot recall which one, but I think another woman (probably one of those in Barton's book) also said the same (or similar) thing about him that Mary Owens said.

But I think Mary loved him so much that she was willing to put up with his deficiencies. And she saw his potential. Mary also had weaknesses, but his love for her was so strong that he just dealt with those weaknesses in his own way.

Has anyone ever read that either of them ever considered leaving the other one? I have not.