Many Affairs Begin With Admiration, Not Attraction (opens in new tab)

Many people now receive more admiration from Microsoft Teams than from their spouse. That sounds ridiculous until you think about it for thirty seconds. Modern work has become one of the last places adults are routinely praised, recognized, challenged, consulted, and noticed. Marriage, meanwhile, increasingly manages the administrative debris of life: schedules, bills, aging parents, school pickups, insurance forms, grocery lists, and the mysterious disappearance of every charging cable ever ...