EP: 084 Stephanie Coontz The Evolution of Marriage—and Divorce Over the last 40 years, marriage has evolved from an institution based on strict gender roles and specialization to a connection based on friendship and shared interests. Our expectations of marriage have shifted as well, the standards for intimacy rising along with the need to negotiate […]
Reframing Divorce as Evolution, Not Dissolution with Tara Eisenhard
EP: 060 Tara Eisenhard Reframing Divorce as Evolution, Not Dissolution There is a great deal of shame associated with divorce, and much of the language we use around the process has an incredibly negative connotation—no one wants to be responsible for a ‘broken’ home or family. But Tara Eisenhard argues that we are all continually […]