Marriage Lessons from Divorce Court - James Sexton - #1059
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 119 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Valentine's Day. |
| 0:01.5 | I mean, listen, this is a big day. |
| 0:03.2 | People get all hopped up and make bad choices. |
| 0:05.1 | It's technically, it's like the best holiday for my profession because... The biggest influx of future class. Yeah, there's just a level of confidence out there today. You know what I mean? Like, everybody out there is just like hyper-confident. There's a lot of proposals happen on Valentine's Day. And the romantic in me kind of is like, oh, this is lovely. |
| 0:21.5 | And then the professional of me is like, statistically to likelihood you're going to cross paths with me. It's pretty good. For the people that are listening, if you haven't got your beloved a Valentine's gift yet and you're shitting yourself and you think, oh, crap, I haven't done anything. Or if you just want to connect more deeply with your partner or work out if you should leave them, |
| 0:40.3 | I've put together a list of 50 of the Internet's most viral questions to connect more deeply with your partner, some of the more evidence-based, some of the most stuff that I've come up with, and then 25 to work out whether or not it's time to leave. and you can get that at chriswillx.com slash valentines. |
| 0:53.5 | That's chriswillex.com slash valentines. |
| 0:56.1 | We were just talking about famous people. And you can get that at chriswillx.com slash valentines. That's chriswillex.com slash valentines. |
| 0:56.1 | We were just talking about famous people. |
| 0:59.3 | What do you see in the marriages and divorces of professional athletes? |
| 1:04.4 | Well, professional athletes are a very particular breed |
| 1:06.7 | because professional athletes have had a monastic discipline, |
| 1:09.7 | most of them, to a very specific task. |
| 1:12.5 | And so they have going for them in the context of relationship, A, that they are used to putting |
| 1:20.6 | all of their focus into one thing, right? How I catch and throw a football, how to shoot a three, |
| 1:25.1 | whatever it might be. And so that becomes a useful |
| 1:29.0 | skill in marriage because in marriage, like that one-pointedness can also be very useful, |
| 1:33.3 | and it keeps you from being distracted by all the little shiny objects that happen. So that's helpful. |
| 1:39.6 | It depends on the type of athlete, because I will tell you, like, NFL players, they get their |
| 1:45.0 | contracts early. |
| 1:46.0 | They usually have a girlfriend who they were with when they were kind of on the come-up, |
| 1:51.0 | and then they get giant contracts very early on because they have such short careers. |
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