Chapter 1 An overview of the current state of our unions, 2023. Reason needs ongoing social scientists looking at the landscape. Changes

Some good news, kids of divorce less likely to divorce, divorce rates have gone down. Divorce rate has gone down from high in 1980’s to about 40%. Not half!

Bad news young adults tend to stay single longer, live together or never (highest number about 1/3) marry. Like Mary Tyler Moore in the 1970’s when the satisfied happy single idea first was proposed. Declining fertility, declining economy, profound loneliness in the elderly. Japan is highlighted.

Psychology (micro) versus social science (macro, culture) And/ Both

Masters & Disasters Gottman’s research Love Lab Jordan Peterson (psychology) 90 % if divorce

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse- Disasters

Masters

2.Losts of positive attention 5:1 positive: negative remarks kind word, humble request for forgiveness, generally positive orientation

Culture- community join, cash flow, culture of family[1]

Same elites proposing marriage as a non-good were living long term marriages

Rules for thee not for me. Create other reality they can intentionally distain.

Elite themselves live in the house created.

Rise of anti-elite charge so easy to stay home. Not easy, made decisions but jealous of results. We did the good and have results of the good. Not supposed to have it.

The 4 groups will be mocked and the outcast. Self-fulling prophecy. Must have the otherness.

[1] Wilcox 20

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