How hard do we try to make a relationship work

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]How do we straddle it? How hard How much do I try? How much do I give up?

[00:00:06]When do I know? If it was clear, this would be a science, but it is not and therefore it's an art.

[00:00:16]So, there is no exact answer to this.

[00:00:19]What you will see across the generations is that there was indeed a generation for that had thick because the conditions were different.

[00:00:29]There were many more children. Women couldn't really leave. They would love There was no fault divorce.

[00:00:35]The legalities were not in place and so the notion was, you know, you stick together and you know, in the United States a marriage is a welfare state of two.

[00:00:46]So, then you have individualism and individualism puts the focus more on me, my needs, my well-being, my happiness and therefore I'm more likely to leave sooner. That's a few generations later.

[00:00:59]So, now we have the I'm more likely to leave sooner. We did that with jobs, too. But at this moment we are going from job hopping to job hugging.

[00:01:09]We're staying put because we're feeling the uncertainty of the world, because we're feeling the destabilization and therefore we're holding on. We're going to start doing that more with relationships, too.

[00:01:20]You will see that after Gen Z, they probably will become These are pendulums between how much do I put the needs of the collective ahead of me, my family, how much do I put my needs ahead of me, me.

[00:01:35]And it shifts.

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