Super interesting! Fr. Bonaventure never fails to be entertaining 😄

Is the "exchange" present in live-in relationships too?

In regard to vocation in marriage, it is only very recently, since the industrial revolution, that a woman’s job might mostly be motherhood. If you look before then, particularly in agricultural economies, there was a household economy in which most everything that one needed was done within the household. It was differentiated between men and women but each was part of the economy. It is only very recently that all of the jobs traditionally done within the household were taken out of the home and put into factories.

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I worry about my teen kids. How do they avoid wasting their time with "capstone" people or those who just want to sleep around forever.

You talk about women wanting the long term relationships - But men are not looking in that direction personally Idk if that's true? You are forgetting the aspect of hypergamy - I think challenges in The Mating Market are coming from many directions one of the main ones that will be pertinent to the the increase in female achievement in education and employment now about 50 years ago when Title 9 came in, that there was a 13% swing in favor of men to women in universities were significantly more men than women now 50 years later 2023 it's a 15% point swing between men and women at the University and so it's in the other direction there are two women for every one man in a four year us college degree. Now she wants to establish a career and earn some money for her- also now they found that there is more to the world then changing diapers cleaning house, and waiting on her husband, and her future husband probably is not going to earn enough to pay back his student loans and hers too and raise a family on? women now on average between the ages of 21 and 29 making $1300 more than their male counterparts. Women are roughly twice as likely as men to say that they will value financial viability in a man, for him to increase his rating on a 10-point scale by two points he requires around a tenfold increase in his salary. For a woman to achieve the same two point Improvement on a 10-point scale in a salary would need to increase it by 10,000 times. A woman is concerned more about a partner's socioeconomic status. Also back in the pre-60's (more so than now) the woman paid the higher price in a relationship because she could become pregnant - This is another reason a woman is more selective for having a sexual relationship with a man.