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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
I knew then that Randy had fallen for AJ, that the friend he really craved was that golden high school boy who had saved him. But he would settle for me.
Laura Lippman • Wilde Lake
Jane, Genevieve
J. Courtney Sullivan • The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel
Ask Polly | Heather Havrilesky | Substack
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a post-90s dynamic in dating: the commodification of people on dating apps, just another place to find made-to-order goods. The matchmaking service that Lucy provides does much the same thing, filtering out and matching candidates by numbers on a spreadsheet: age, weight, height, income. Characters constantly talk about feeling valuable, which here... See more
How a Salary Figure Changes Everything in ‘Materialists’
In Paris, Faruq had expounded an idea that marriage could be a kind of romantic limitation, though not the province of romance itself.
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
Hitchcockian protagonist,