It depresses me to see you struggle!

Since everyone seems to have love on their lips or tissues filled with tears, I am going to tell you all about Marina Abramovic and her husband Ulay.In 1975 Abramovic met Ulay, an artist who shared her date of birth as well as her artistic concerns. Over the next two decades they lived and collaborated together, performing and traveling extensively. In one, Breathing In/Breathing Out (1977), with their mouths clamped tightly together and microphones taped to their throats, Abramovic and Ulay breathed in turn the air from each other's lungs, until - almost to the point of suffocation - they were exchanging only carbon dioxide.In another, Rest Energy (1980), they held a taut bow with an arrow loaded and pointing at Abramovic's heart, with only the weight of their bodies maintaining the tension. Microphones recorded their rapidly accelerating heartbeats. In Rhythm 0, perhaps Abramovic's most infamous performance, she asked her audience to use various items —72 items she provided: pen, scissors, chains, axe, loaded pistol, and others.— on her however they wished and would not be held accountable; according to one report: 'By the third hour, her clothes had been cut from her body with razor blades, her skin slashed; a loaded gun held to her head finally caused a fight between her tormentors, bringing the proceeding to an unnerving halt.The Great Wall Walk (1988), which entailed each walking 2,000 km along the Great Wall of China, had Abramovic and Ulay starting at opposite ends and meeting in the middle. What did they do once they met in the middle? They happily ended their relationship.