I will write a more complete response when I have the time to create a response that merits being paired with your excellent, but depressing, piece. Briefly, the problem for all people in an ongoing relationship is that, while it is easy to get sex education, there really is no venue to learn about relationships. When the intense excitement of a new relationship fades over time, as it does, how do you keep the spark alive, and rekindle it when it dims? How do you communicate to each of our children that being a spouse is just as important a role as being in the workaday world and being a family member (parent, sibling, child, etc.) and that all deserve time? In the best of all possible worlds, that would come from observing one’s own parents. But, with over one-third of all marriages ending in divorce, society had better create other sources.