Getting to Know Einstein's Wives

Though Elisa and Albert Einstein did not have the perfect marriage, the physicist’s potential inability to function as an emotionally inept person and his realization of this is probably best exemplified in a letter he wrote to the son of his friend Michele Besso after Michele’s death. Albert said, “What I admire in your father is that, for his whole life, he stayed with only one woman. That is a project in which I grossly failed, twice.”