Marry or Don't

The Honest Case for Both Sides: What the Research Really Says About Marriage, Divorce, and Staying Single

von David Ogen

124 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Most people make this decision with less scrutiny than they'd give a used car.Four in ten first marriages end in divorce. Count the ones that survive without anyone being glad, and the number climbs higher. So here is the question somebody asks at every wedding, usually outside, usually after a drink: Would you jump with a parachute that opens three times out of four?It is a better question than it looks. MARRY OR DON'T takes it seriously - and then takes it apart.This book does something almost no book about marriage does. It builds the strongest honest case for marrying, then the strongest honest case for staying single, using the same eighty years of research for both. Not a debate with a winner decided in advance. Two arguments, built at full strength, so you can decide for yourself.Inside you'll find: - Where the divorce statistics really come from, and why the scary number is a definition, not a fact- What the long studies found: Harvard's eighty-year project, the Terman study, and what they don't prove- Why marriage protects men's health more than women's- The difference between being alone and being lonely, and why a bad marriage is worse for you than either- Two lives placed side by side on six ordinary days: a Monday morning, a week of illness, a Friday night at forty-one, and the last ten years- The questions to ask before the question, and the wrong reasons people marry anyway- What to build if you choose marriage, and what to build if you don'tWritten in plain language, without jargon, by someone who is not selling you a religion, a therapy method or a five-step system. Every study is explained the way a friend would explain it, and every claim comes with what it doesn't prove.Read this if you are: engaged and quietly frightened. Single and tired of being asked why. Married and wondering how you got here. Or simply someone who thinks the biggest decision of your life deserves more examination than it usually gets.There is no answer at the end of this book. There is something better: the ability to work out your own.

• ISBN: 9798194725014
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp