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What the Death of the Dining Room Taught Me About the Modern Registry

Why are we all so devoted to content made for a life most of us are not actually living? I went looking for the answer, and it changed how I think about wedding gifts entirely.

The Habit of Looking Up

What happened when I revisited a book about habits while reading another about marriage.

The UCLA Newlywed Complexity Study

Two Things Can Be True, and Apparently That Is a Whole Stage of Development

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The Novelty Effect

The Nights You Actually Remember Aren’t Always The Planned Ones