The Challenges of Marriage

Ila, you talk about the same idea in your book. You give the analogy of a woman who once turned to five different friends for important things she needed. But once she gets married, she turns to her husband for those same five things, and he is not able to provide all of them,. She feels now unfulfilled. What's interesting is that's really what we've done to marriage, right? Is that marriage, for a long time, served a set and relatively limited array of different functions for us. And overtime, we've piled more and more of these emotional and psychological functions on our spouse.