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Opinion | The All-or-Nothing Marriage (Published 2014)
In The All-or-Nothing Marriage, Eli Finkel, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, traces the history of the institution over what he sees as three thematic eras: marriage for practical reasons, marriage for love, marriage for self-expression/fulfillment/meaning.
The All-or-Nothing Marriage — Eli J. Finkel
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The All-or-Nothing Marriage — Eli J. Finkel
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Finkel writes that while “the institution of marriage in America is struggling ... the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras; indeed, they are the best marriages that the world has ever known.”
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
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Over time, the argument for marriage has shifted. It’s no longer about external forces having power over us: religions, the state, the legal idea of legitimacy, the social idea of being respectable … What we are correctly now focused on is the psychological point of making it hard to throw in the towel. It turns out that we benefit greatly (though
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