Andy Kindler
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They walk through it before you, so maybe you see it's not that bad, your life isn't that devastated, you move on with your life.
Yeah, I imagine it's in your close circle, in your close-knit, you know, your group of couple friends.
If one of them got divorced, you'd be 147 times more likely to get divorced.
If a sibling got divorced, you would have a similar effect.
Let's all stay together, people, please.
We don't want to start this.
Well, according to the researchers, people begin to warm up to the idea of divorce when they see their friends, family, or co-workers...
Well, it kind of makes you think about how much your social group impacts the things you do.
Because you don't want to be contaminated.
It is antiseptic.
These two researchers.
A couple researchers who actually wrote a book called Connected.
They've previously researched how drinking, obesity, and other social behaviors can be contagious.
And I think I remember reading that suicide triangulates.
Like, if there's a suicide in one community or school, there's likely to be another.
Yeah, and I would say, before I was married, I had a social group.