franny
· 9w
my parents are happily married and I was a maniac in my teens
its not all about the marriage but it surely has a big impact
Yeah, same, but look how stable we now are, and what good choices in partner we've made. We grew up around people modeling a way of life that is very difficult to recreate, unless you're raised in it. It's a complex social system and everyone not raised in it, has to actively attempt to reorganize their brain and body, to achieve the same thing, whereas we can sort of slide back into it.
This is something whose impact tends to be felt in the long-term and can only be measured demographically. Because, after all, would you have been _even more of a maniac_ if your parents hadn't been married? The statistics suggest: yes.