Stephanie Kuntz

A good marriage partner will help you sustain good friendship networks.

But many times couples fall into this kind of isolating thing that can be quite bad for them because

They are not reaching out and getting that feedback and revitalization from people with new ideas and different things to do.

I don't think that marriage is dead.

Most people do continue to marry, though at much older ages.

Two-thirds of people who divorce go on and marry again.

But what we have to understand and what so many of the family values promoters and the ones who are having hysteria about all the choices that are left forget is

Marriage at this point is never again going to be the main institution that organizes people's lives, that society can count on to say, oh, I know what you're doing and what you need.

It's not going to be the main institution in which all people's major life decisions are made or their major personal responsibilities are carried out.

So we have to adjust our thinking to a way of supporting marriage as partnerships and recognizing that people will live longer lives outside of marriage and incur important social and personal obligations outside of marriage.

And maybe we need to take responsibility and start thinking about how we serve all our people's needs, whether they're married or not.

All right.

Thanks so much, Mike.