James Sexton

Let's get right back into the action.

Do you think there is still wisdom in getting married?

Marriage is a legal status.

Fair.

Yeah, yeah.

She will insist that we go together.

I don't think you're gonna get that with guys.

Let me make a pitch here.

Tell me what you think about this.

So...

The most important book that I've ever read that has impacted my marriage more than anything else was a book called The Power of Myth.

Written by Joseph Campbell, the guy that helped George Lucas write Star Wars.

And in it, he puts forward the idea that we don't have enough rituals in our lives anymore.

And I can't remember if he says this expressly or this is just what I was going through.

And so it landed for me this way.

But my memory of it is he was saying part of the reason I think the divorce rate is so high is that there's no meaningful transition between not married and married.

And so when I think about marriage as an artifact of evolution, like you were saying, the wisdom that's

passed down, this is people that are like, okay, wait a second.

We understand that the kid has a way better chance of surviving long enough to have kids.

If two people come together, they stay together.