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“How did my parents and other couples of their generation stay married for multiple decades?” I have often asked myself. Their endurance, so different from the fragile bonds many of us witness today, sometimes feels almost mythical. My own answer has usually revolved around one principal explanation: societal norms, anchored in religion, convention, and often repression, made it both inconceivable and costly to break a marriage. Divorce was stigmatized, sometimes even demoniz