Even 25 years ago, most people were reliant on their friends to fix them up. People in their 40s and 50s don't want to be hanging out at bars. Now they have access to this incredible pool of single people their age.
More Quotes from Stephanie Coontz:
This is a new phenomenon not the mercenary quality, but the fact that people are willing to risk this kind of money, just to say they're married. Love has been so idealized that at the top, the rich are willing to throw good money after bad to see if they can get the magic ring.Stephanie Coontz
This generation has a more friendly relationship with their parents than previous generations. The kids, when they move back, have fewer rules, no curfew and fewer hassles about their sex lives.
Stephanie Coontz
A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.
Stephanie Coontz
Marriage, A History From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.
Stephanie Coontz
You have to make a family where you can find it.
Stephanie Coontz
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Age Quotes, People QuotesWe were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.
Pete Best
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.
Shane Warne