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Get Married

by Brad Wilcox · Recommended by 2 people on 2 podcasts

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And uh Brad Wilcox in his book Get Married, he talks about uh there are certain like high-risk environments that you can find yourself in if you're in a relationship.
Chris Williamson · Modern Wisdom · Apr 2025 Listen at 7:18

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And then on the flip side there were people you know more on the right or the center like Brad Wilcox who literally has a book called get married that's coming out and he really is trying to prevent divorce and so on.
Raina Cohen The Ezra Klein Show · Feb 2024

Why people recommend it

Get Married by Brad Wilcox is a sociological exploration arguing for the enduring personal and societal benefits of traditional family structures and marriage. Chris Williamson referenced Brad Wilcox's book Get Married on Modern Wisdom to discuss the high-risk environments that people can inadvertently find themselves in when navigating relationships. Williamson brought up the book again in a separate episode featuring James Sexton, noting that Wilcox's work from The Institute for Family Studies serves as an insightful antithesis to many modern assumptions surrounding contemporary family structures and love. Additionally, Raina Cohen mentioned Get Married on The Ezra Klein Show while examining different perspectives on family organization, pointing out that Wilcox's explicit goal with the publication is to actively work toward the prevention of divorce and to champion traditional domestic arrangements. Across these distinct podcasts, commentators utilized the text to either challenge prevailing cultural dogmas regarding matrimony or to highlight conservative viewpoints on stabilizing modern society through committed partnerships.

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Chris Williamson And uh Brad Wilcox in his book Get Married, he talks about uh there are certain like high-risk environments… 2
Discussed
“And uh Brad Wilcox in his book Get Married, he talks about uh there are certain like high-risk environments that you can find yourself in if you're in a relationship.”
Discussed
“I've had Brad Wilcox on from The Institute for family studies recently his new book get married uh might be the antithesis to a lot of the the insights that we get today”
Raina Cohen and then on the flip side there were people you know more on the right or the center like Brad Wilcox who l… 1
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“and then on the flip side there were people you know more on the right or the center like Brad Wilcox who literally has a book called get married that's coming out and he really is trying to prevent divorce and so on”

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“And so, the point I make about this story in my own book is that we have a kind of the soulmate myth out there.”
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“yeah so I think that's certainly one of the one of the the pieces of bad news that I convey in the book um that is that the marriage rat has come down about 65%”

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