Marriage Is Not a Meme

Readiness matters—both for securing marriage in the first place and for making it work long-term. If those same blue collar and working-class people imbibe the meme without the nuance, rushing marriage without taking a realistic inventory of their life circumstances and skills, including many of the soft skills increasingly demonized in the same media ecosystems, they will be setting themselves up for failure and disappointment. As Christopher Lasch explains, “Our ideal of ’true romance‘ puts an impossible burden on personal relationships. We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.”

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