Chapter Eight: Love Versus the Tribe

This chapter documents how people’s love lives and tribe lives can come into grave conflict. Not many links to point you to here because I relied on the personal stories of people who struggled to make the transition from tribes to families. There is good news. The divorce rates appear to be going down. Experts have pointed to stronger, later marriages as one factor. Even though we’ve delayed marriage longer than any generation in American history, we might also be the generation that saves the institution from irrelevance.