Marriage Is What Brings Us Together to Day

Researchers have found that it's not especially easy to fulfil a partner's emotional and psychological needs when you're struggling to pay the bills or working three jobs. This might be one reason that the institution of marriage appears to be especially fragile among low income couples. Eli argues that our expectations for marriage, both gay and straight, among rich and poor, have dramatically increased. He says there are things we can do, what he calls love hacks, to re orient how we think about marriage in order to make ourselves more fulfilled in long tome relationships.