
Why Modern Marriages Feel So Brittle
We often talk about failing marriages as personal tragedies or moral failures. What if many of these failures are structural? What if marriage is being stretched beyond its original design limits?
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We often talk about failing marriages as personal tragedies or moral failures. What if many of these failures are structural? What if marriage is being stretched beyond its original design limits?

Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians watched their irrigation system poison the soil. Yet they couldn't stop—because stopping meant dismantling everything they'd built. Today, we face the same trap.

Politics rarely shapes societies in isolation. History offers an uncomfortable lens into how that reflection takes form.

This is the story of a long, uncomfortable journey to Abilene, and why we often follow plans we never truly agreed to in the first place.

Diwali pulls you home like gravity. Rituals aren't just tradition, but antidotes to loneliness, anchors that sustain us through repetition and predictability.