Noel King

Amin El-Sadi edited, David Tadishore and Bridger Dunnigan engineered.

Andrea Lopez-Crusado is our fact checker and I'm Noelle King.

It's Today Explained.

I don't understand.

Parents famously just don't understand.

But here at Today Explained, we have also been wondering what's going on with prenups.

Data shows that many younger couples, so think Gen Z and millennials, are signing these agreements before they get married.

Even couples that make more or less the same amount of money come from similar financial backgrounds and don't have many assets to protect.

So is romance dead or is it just evolving?

Coming up, we ask, you tell.

Angry and bitter made us laugh.

We called this caller back.

So did you know it was going to be the Friday the 13th or was it like, oh, this just happens to be the Friday when everyone can come?

We wanted it to be Friday the 13th.

For either of you, be honest, was there any doubt about getting married?

You guys ultimately ended up signing a prenuptial agreement, a prenup.

What were the financial stressors after your first divorce?

Like, what happened?

I just said first divorce.

I'm sorry.