The Anatomy of Marriage: The 10 Most Dysfunctional Married Couples in Literature
Humbert Humbert and Charlotte Haze
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
“Don’t cry, I’m sorry to have deceived you so much, but that’s how life is.”
Oh, sure, Humbert and Charlotte’s relationship isn’t the one that everyone thinks of when they think of Lolita. And there’s no doubt that Hum and Lo make the much more dysfunctional couple. However, a marriage that takes place solely because one partner is sexually and otherwise obsessed with the pre-teen child of the other is pretty much the definition of dysfunctional. Also, you know, it ends in death. So that’s bad too. Moral? Don’t marry a pedophile. And also, look both ways when crossing the street.