An “ideal” bill of goods
What we were taught to expect from marriage
7 min readMay 3, 2022
My response to Klara Jane’s question yesterday
No, I don’t think people are unhappier in their marriages than they were 50 years ago. I don’t think people have ever been different than they are today. The glacial rate of cultural shifts is only second to the almost complete stagnancy of ideological change.
