It turned out he had been skeptical and wanted to have them talk in front of a therapist.

We're facing a demographic bubble. The divorce revolution, the big increase, started in the late 1960s. The average person who gets divorced is in their 30s. We're coming up to a generation who in large numbers are going to enter late adulthood.

The pace is quicker. Collectively as a culture, we have to name over-busyness as a cultural problem and not view it as part of the good life.