Here's my take on it -- everyone could use an appreciative biographer (preferably while they are still alive). Many people would love to be known, understood, and appreciated. How wonderful to be interviewed by someone who is really listening, really trying to get what makes you tick, what you are -- at the same time respecting that mystery that we all can be to one another.

A biographer gets to know you and understand you. Many biographers are motivated by their admiration for their subject. You feel most authentically yourself when your identity is accurately reflected back to you by another person. The article said, "A spouse is unlikely to provide it. A spouse knows you too well for that, and gives you something deeper, truer and so much less electric."

Your spouse knows and understands and appreciates you in different ways. Your spouse already did an in-depth interview, and has moved on now to other ways of being with you. How would it be if spouses begin writing their partner's biography and continue to write it throughout their life together? They could take turns. Little bite-size pieces of biography every day. There are enough questions to make that possible. That would be cool. b_b is right of course.