As a Husband, Einstein Was More of an Asshole Than a Genius
Albert Einstein may have been a genius, but he certainly doesn't
seem to have been the best estranged husband in the world. In
1914, his marriage to Mileva Marić was falling apart. He
proposed they stay together for the good of their kids—but he
had a few conditions if they were going to make it work. Letters
of Note has his list, and he wasn't messing around:   A. You
will make sure:  B. You will renounce all personal relations
with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social
reasons. Specifically, You will forego: 1. my sitting at home
with you; 2. my going out or travelling with you.    Mileva
tried to go along with it, but—you won't be surprised to
learn—it didn't work out, and she took the kids and moved out a
few months later. It's too bad Einstein wasn't smart enough to
write an equation to calculate how quickly these kinds of
demands would wear thin, or he'd have know it was never going to
work.  Einstein's Demands [Letters of