Arthur C. Brooks
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That's usually what's going to happen before you get married.
You're going to break up.
Breakups happen all the time.
And so it's really, really sad before you're married too, but that's the normal course of events.
You fall in love.
You have to let yourself fall in love.
It doesn't work out.
Your heart is broken.
You learn.
You try again.
And that's one of the reasons that happy marriages, the happiest marriages, they generally start between the ages of 28 and 32.
That's kind of the magic zone because it's a startup.
It's not a merger.
It is a startup.
First marriages, they're not.
Well, I mean, you're- But I know what you mean.
You were both married before.
Yeah, you were both married before.
But the first one, generally, they work the best if they're a startup and not a merger.
Yeah.