I don't agree with the premise that Hollywood is conditioning people to think that marriage is not sexy. Using How I Met Your Mother is an outdated reference (2005 - 2014), but if you want to pull from that era The Big Bang Theory (2007 - 2019) was a wildly more popular than How I Met Your Mother and had three successful, loving marriages out of the four main male characters. If you want to reference current shows that span age range and popularity you only have to look at 2025 season 3 The Summer I Turned Pretty (young people desperate to marry, though I would say too young) and then And Just Like That, depicting strong, enduring marriages through thick and thin for two of the middle-age main characters.
Love this. I tell 200 health undergrads a year that they've been sold a bill of goods. All of this is true, but even more important than sex (perish the thought!), money, or personal 'happiness', is thriving, healthy kids. You can have relatively more all that good stuff, *and* kids who are a lot less likely to be fucked up.
Whose kid is blond boy?
I don't agree with the premise that Hollywood is conditioning people to think that marriage is not sexy. Using How I Met Your Mother is an outdated reference (2005 - 2014), but if you want to pull from that era The Big Bang Theory (2007 - 2019) was a wildly more popular than How I Met Your Mother and had three successful, loving marriages out of the four main male characters. If you want to reference current shows that span age range and popularity you only have to look at 2025 season 3 The Summer I Turned Pretty (young people desperate to marry, though I would say too young) and then And Just Like That, depicting strong, enduring marriages through thick and thin for two of the middle-age main characters.
Love this. I tell 200 health undergrads a year that they've been sold a bill of goods. All of this is true, but even more important than sex (perish the thought!), money, or personal 'happiness', is thriving, healthy kids. You can have relatively more all that good stuff, *and* kids who are a lot less likely to be fucked up.