Hi, I'm Ellie Anderson.

And I'm David Pena Guzman.

Welcome to Overthink.

The podcast, we're two friends who are also professors,

put philosophy and dialogue with the everyday.

Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.

So David, we decided to be a little cutesy for February and do a four-part series on intimate relationships to go along with Valentine's Day.

Scary. Also pretty exciting. You can listen to them in any order and you don't have to listen to them all.

But they do follow nicely one from the other. And they will be marriage, monogamy, open relationships, and polyamory.

We decided to focus on relationship structure.

So we're talking about forms of intimate relationships,

rather than, say, the feelings that go along with them,

although those will come up a little bit,

and some of the other elements that go into intimacy.

We'll talk about that in other episodes.

Today, we're talking about marriage. Historically, the majority of adult Americans have been

married, but among our generation of millennials, less than half are married. So we are marrying less,

we are marrying later, we are marrying more

weekly, carry you know, whatever adjective you want to use for this. And this is perhaps a little bit

surprising given that it's only within the past few years that marriage has been opened up,

for example, to same-sex couples, thus giving a lot more people the opportunity

to get married. But it seems like millennials are not taking the bait. Why do you think millennials,

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