James Sexton

It creates engagement.

You know, whether you're shouting in opposition or shouting amen, it's just engagement.

And so, you know, the social media gods love it.

So I think that's only increasing.

We're getting further from each other and we're not recognizing what you've rightly pointed out, which is that a world in which men are flailing is not a world where women are thriving and vice versa.

I mean, the divorce statistics that are tracked.

See, I get into this conversation a lot because I talk to people about divorce.

how marriage is arguably, from a legal standpoint, not just a negligent activity, it's potentially a reckless activity.

So the law makes a distinction between negligence and recklessness.

Negligence is a failure to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk of serious harm, and recklessness is a conscious disregard for a substantial and unjustifiable risk of serious harm.

With the divorce rate hovering just over 50%,

And then you add to it, and there's been quite a bit of interesting studies about marriage dissatisfaction.

Because remember, those are just the marriages that catastrophically failed, meaning they divorced.

There was the entry of a certificate of dissolution in marriage, which means a divorce was finalized.

But there's another 15 to 20%.

that are physically separated under a binding written agreement, but not finalizing a divorce for whatever reason.

So they can stay on each other's health insurance, religious reasons, whatever it might be.

And then there are the percentages of people, and there's been a lot of interesting research on this, that stay unhappy in a relationship, either for the children or because they don't want to give away half their things, or economic insecurity that you can't move out now of two cable bills because you're barely affording your single cable bill.

So it really turns into something where statistically, this is a very unlikely to succeed enterprise and one that is likely to cause tremendous harm.

But again, it's wildly popular.