Brad Wilcox
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
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And so what ends up being the case is that for human beings, our friends and our families, and especially our romantic partners or spouses later on, end up being the most important people in our lives.
And they're the folks who are most conducive to forging
a meaningful and happy life.
And so what we see in the research is that a lot of people today, a Pew survey, for instance, recently kind of found that people were reporting most of the time that they thought that a job was the pathway to leading a fulfilling and happy life.
Like just having the right career was,
was the important thing.
And yet what we see in the data is that the best factor of happiness for ordinary Americans is not money.
It's not career success.
It's not sexual frequency.
It's not even church going.
It's not self-rated health.
It's a good marriage.
This is the most important factor that I see in what's called the general social survey, a big
ongoing social survey.
And so, you know, given kind of the importance of both, I think, marriage and friendship, we have to realize that we're built for both friendship and pair bonding.
And we're generally much happier when we have good friends and we have a good spouse.
As long as you're kind of getting started in your professional work, I don't think that there's any kind of real financial bar that you should set for marriage.
In fact, obviously, once you move in together, when you're married, you're
you know, in most cases, be able to save money too on things like the rent.
So there is this kind of like capstone model out there that a lot of people have in their hearts and heads.
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