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One useful fact from the podcast is that more couples are wanting a love based on sharing and friendship. For sociologists, this means that they can study why these changes are taking place and if they are beneficial to the overall health of relationships.

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People who shared housework and child care had happier marriages and the happiest sex life. I think for sociologists this shows that when their is equality in the household their is a feeling of both partners in the relationship are giving 50/50 which is the ideal relationship balance and can conclude to the happiest marriage

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Adam and Stephanie go into detail on some of the original purposes of marriage in Europe during the Middle Ages and how it's intentions were all about titles and having claimants to the throne, siring bastard children everywhere to have more loyal successors than just your legitimate competing sons, and also the dynamic of either spouse cheating (especially the woman) being a huge threat to the ruling family bloodline. Marriages were purely political and for the purpose of title claims almost strictly between nobility. Understanding this historical fact can also help sociologists understand the basis of marriage as a social institution in modern society. It's roots are based on practically anything but love or mutual attraction and how the increasing average age of marriages we are currently seeing is due in part to this shifting acceptance because of many people realizing how outdated and unnecessary it is.

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It was great to hear that marriages where couples share housework were happier overall. For sociologists, it would be interesting to study how many couples split the housework evenly, and if children of these marriages are socialized to structure housework like their parents. Sociologists would find it interesting to look into why some couples split housework in America, while in other countries, women have a more traditional role.

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A fact I loved to hear was that marriages are happier when the couple shares the household and parental responsibilities!

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In the meddle ages adulterous love was to be thought as true love because many marriages were arranged. Marriage was seen as a business. Protestants and Catholics didn't agree with the adulterous love and thought love would come after the actual marriage of 2 people. Marriage was a social arrangement and love could complicate the business side of it.

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In Stephanie Koontz podcast there is a discussion about the relationships and experiences in a relationship and how it effects the entirety as well as the stability as to how long it will last. If people have different interpersonal relationships with their friends as well as the activities they choose this might create a stronger relationship for the couple being that they can have their own time to feel like their own person and then when they are together they have their own group of friends and activities that they choose to do together. This may have a positive effect on the relationship, or it may push them apart.

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Stephanie Coontz discusses with Adam that socializing with other people and finding meaning in other places can contribute to the development and stability of a relationship or marriage. Couples must share similar values and shared the commonality that prevents couples from finding individual different paths. Sociologist could find this interesting and seek if couples that have more friendships outside of the relationship or friendships in common lead to long and more lasting relationships and marriages.

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A fact that was discussed in this podcast that I found interesting was that it was found that couples who share housework and responsibilities were found to have the happiest marriages and healthiest sex lives over the more "traditional" marriage that held the masculine and feminine standard of men working and women taking care of the home. Also, that the idea of "date night" might not be the best thing to keep a relationship healthy but rather double dating as the experience of shared friendships is actually a strong marker in keeping a relationship healthy.

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A fact that was discussed during the podcast was learning that marriage was mainly a contractual agreement and arrangement. Love was not part of marriage. It was more of a benefit of class, and dealing with parents wanting their children to marry into wealth or into a certain class.

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One fact that was discussed with Stephanie and Adam early human societies marriages were based on family ties due to political and social reasons, it was dumb to organize a marriage based on love (it was basically not smart). This is  knowledgeable to sociologist due to further understanding each society and culture that exist around the world, how relationships work and build society and politics.

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It use to be that if the man has more education is is smarter than it was a risk factor for divorce but that has changed today. Men are becoming more accepting of women and more accepting of how the men don't always have to be the more educated ones. It isn't good in a relationship for one to think that they are more educated than the other. You should both be equally as educated just maybe not in the same aspects.

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Marriage used to be a way to climb the social ladder, before the 20's because of this Chinese people believed love was disobedient for this reason. This is useful because this explains while in some countries arranged marriages are so prominent and why love or dating can be looked down upon.

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In the early 19th century, people looked at marriage as a business arrangement based on what --non-emotional, but more financial--you could get out of it.  People were expected to marry within their class.  There was a fear of an instability of a 'love match.'  Today, it is important to socialize with other adults to help the health of a marriage. Socializing with other people is an important renewal for marriage so you don't put too much emphasis on just the marriage. This knowledge means that sociologists recognize the importance of the big picture in relationships and how everyone connects.

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Something that I learned from the podcast is that it was very widely accepted, and common for people to commit adultery before the 1900s. The only way adultery was looked down upon was when it interfered with the social business of marriage. For example marriage was used as a business agreement to make money or increase status. No one associated marriage with love, no one really married for love. Because of this people accepted adultery as an outlet from this business deal, they understood the want for a relationship with love. With this knowledge, we can understand marriage and how it affects people. Today not many people get married however we can understand the different situations in a marriage. We can understand why people cheat, who will cheat and why people prefer to stay single. We can understand if people cheat as an outlet from their marriage, but then we also ask then why get married in the first place?

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Marriage was a social business. Parents wanted to make sure their child was married to someone who had in higher grade who would bring money and more.(Social economic way) Lastly do to being married for this reason there were more infidelity where you would see true love.....Sociologist can see that marriage doesnt always mean they love eachother. There maybe other causes to be married. For money, for papers to be US citizen, and could be for the kids and oreven somewhere where the signiciant other has you harrased... When is comes to infedility since one was foorced to marriage  you may, fine love elsewhere.

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In the beginning of the podcast, Stephanie and Adam talk about how romantic love, especially in some Chinese culture, was frowned upon. This could tells us 1) that romantic love isn't universally viewed as a positive thing 2) globally and historically, marriages are not based off love and 3) some may have saw romantic love as potentially disastrous because it distracted youth from devotion to family and work (the economy).