1. Breadwinning Wives and Nervous Husbands, The New York Times
[T]raditional views of gender identity, particularly the
view that the right and proper role of the husband is to make more money
than the wife, are affecting choices of whom to marry, how much to
work, and even whether to stay married.
2. Marriage Advice: Sharing a Hobby is Good for Your Relationship, The Wall Street Journal
New experiences also can activate the brain’s reward system, flooding it
with powerful neurochemicals related to pleasure and bonding—the same
circuits triggered when a person first falls in love.
3. More Satisfaction, Less Divorce for People Who Meet Spouses Online, TIME
When it comes to playing Cupid, it’s still not clear whether online
dating ultimately makes better matches. But given the large number of
people who meet their mates this way, the good news is that at least it
doesn’t seem to make matters any worse.
4. Uncoupling the Hookup Culture, The Sacramento Bee
Harvard sophomore Lisa Mogilanski put it this way: "Hookup culture is an
unnavigable mush of vague intentions and desires. ... We can try to
dress it up as being freeing or equalizing the genders, but I fear it
only leaves us equally impoverished."
5. Kathleen Parker: ‘Father’ is the New F-Word, The Wichita Eagle
Contrary to the Hollywood version of single motherhood, a trend that
began with Murphy Brown more than 20 years ago, single mothers are more
likely to be younger, black or Hispanic, and less educated, according to
Pew, and they have a median family income of $23,000.
6. Marriage Research: Survey Finds Marriage More Important to Happiness than Salary, Owning a Home, The Huffington Post
The U.K.'s Office of National Statistics recently surveyed 165,000 British people. . . They found that being married is 20 times more important to a person's
happiness than their earnings and 13 times more important than owning a
home.
7. Myths about Relationships, Leadership
Myth: A good relationship means that you don’t have to work at it.
Fact: “The strongest most enduring relationships
take lots of hard work. . ." [O]ur culture, education system
and parenting styles don’t prepare us for the fact that even good
relationships take effort.
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