Thinking about the history of relationships, I often wonder how many of the rules of relationships

that we've been handed by society are now invalid, or maybe we're never valid. So, you know,

we have these sort of constructs of like marriage and monogamy and even like heterosexuality,

all these things that have been passed to us through

religion and through history. I was looking at some stats about marriage and it says that in

2019 marriage rates for opposite sex couples fell to their lowest on record since 1862. That's in the

UK. And in the US, marriage rates have been declining since the early 1970s.

I'm not married, but I spend a lot of time thinking about whether I should be or not.

I actually had a conversation recently with my partner where I said, do you want to get married?

And it was abundantly clear that she does want to get married.

But then I asked why, and really, it seems like it was really just more for

the wedding than for some kind of legal contract that we signed with the government. So I'm,

I'm really wondering, based on everything we know about history and the tradeoffs of marriage,

should I be getting married?

Yes, because your partner wants to.

Is that reason enough?

But here, sorry, so I think the institution of marriage, what you're going to see, this is my

prediction, is that because nuclear families...

What do you mean by nuclear family?

So having... Well, it's interesting, there's different perspectives now on nuclear family,

but I look at it as you have two partners and children, and that creates the nuclear family. That becomes an economic unit, which drives a

society. And as that has disappeared, there's been less of a base to drive society per many

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