Marriage Is Over — It Will Never Again Matter the Way It Once Did

Bella DePaulo
4 min readJun 17, 2019

Marriage is going down. I’m sure of it. Never again will it have the place of prominence that it once had in our lives.

Predicting the future is perilous. In the mid-1950s, marriage and nuclear family in the United States were at their peak. People got married younger than they had ever married before, they almost always had kids, and they stayed…

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Bella DePaulo

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. SINGLE AT HEART book coming on Dec 5, 2023. www.belladepaulo.com