College educated people are marrying at high rates. They're delaying marriage to they're marrying later. Non college educated people are doing something totally different. They're less likely to marry at all. When they do marry, they marry earlier. Having kids early and marrying early is associate with higher rates of divorce. And our marriage rates going up, our divorce rates going up. What's what's happening now? In the year that we're in, two thousand 19 here's the trend. Ah, the trends are very different for college educated and non college educated people.
Love! Romance! Intimate relationships! Marriage! Divorce! Remarriage! Clowns! This episode has it all. The wonderfully warm Dr. Benjamin Karney of the UCLA Marriage lab has been studying romance and intimate relationships for 20 years and sits down to chat about being single and the mechanisms behind finding a partner, what behaviors foster intimacy, why some couples stay together vs. splitting up, some bananas proposals, wedding budgets, how parenting affects marriage, historical problems with matrimony and his own experiences with marriage and divorce. These behaviors are also so applicable to friendships, work partnerships and as it turns out...professional clowns.
Dr. Ben Karney at the UCLA Marriage Lab
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