Are You Really Married Anymore?

I love the idea of diversification, and the analogy with financial diversification. In some sense, what we're doing with marriage these days is we've got a heavily stock loaded portfolio. That means that when the market is up, we make gains, but that's a lot of eggs to put in that one basket. And when the market goes down, we're going to get hit pretty hard. So if people are looking outside the marriage for emotional support or other needs, some people are going to say, well, are you really married any more? I think this is a complexity that comes up when you think about how an institution like marriage changes over time. If we transported back to