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 huge 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. 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 17 50 and looked at what people were expecting and how little they were looking for personal fulfilment from the marriage, we would be bewildered. So