Brad Wilcox

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · Why You're Still Single & How To Get Married | Brad Wilcox · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

So one thing is kind of cultivating a spirit of we before me, you know, where you're kind of doing things as a team, you know, in your marriage.

You're sharing the same last name.

You're sharing a bank account.

So we've got good evidence, for instance, that sharing the same bank account, kind of developing the sense that this is our money, it's our financial future together, is linked both to stronger marriages and to less divorce.

That's one thing you can do.

A second thing to do is to really kind of try to keep the romance alive in your marriage.

And so I think regular date nights are incredibly important.

Now, for some folks, especially early on in marriage, especially if you've got kids in the household, like a baby or a toddler, they may have their date night in the basement, you know, to save money.

But just sort of kind of setting aside time to sort of have one-on-one more romantic opportunities to...

listen to music, have dinner, whatever it might be that's gonna be the thing that allows you to cultivate that romantic spirit and ongoing basis in your marriage.

So we see that regular date nights are linked to about a 25% risk in divorce.

A third thing that I see in the research is that guys who are reliable providers, and again, this doesn't speak to the woman working, are much less likely to get divorced.

In fact, there's a relatively recent Harvard study that showed that when women lost their jobs or were unemployed,

it had no impact on their risk of divorce.

But when the guy was unemployed or had lost his job, it increased their risk of divorce by about 33%.

So it's a big effect in the research.

So just kind of encouraging men to be intentional about, you know, being hardworking and being gainfully employed.

Of course, people lose their jobs, you know, on occasion.

But I think the challenge then is for, you know, especially the husband to kind of realize he's got to,

get back on his horse and find a new job and the fourth thing that i would say is just the importance of shared faith there's just no question that couples who are engaged in a christian community have access to what i would call kind of the norms norms like fidelity and forgiveness the networks of friends and other churchgoers are going to be good examples and also help them when things are not going so well

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