idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Heh. Of course she's not the woman he married -- everyone changes over time, and besides, that's a lame thing for him to say. The key to it is that they change together, and understand that change is good -- so basically what happens is the woman looks at him and rolls her eyes, and then says, look, I'm drunk and pretty horny, so just come fuck me.

And he does.