A rising number of American couples are splitting their kitchens instead of their households, adopting what relationship therapists now call a "food divorce", and the trend reveals as much about modern isolation as it does about what's for dinner. The arrangement works exactly the way it sounds. Two people share a home but stop planning, […] The post Couples ditch shared meals in growing 'food divorce' trend — but therapists warn it may cost them more than dinner appeared first on American Almanac .
A rising number of American couples are splitting their kitchens instead of their households, adopting what relationship therapists now call a "food divorce", and the trend reveals as much about modern isolation as it does about what's for dinner. The arrangement works exactly the way it sounds. Two people share a home but stop planning, cooking, and eating meals together. Each partner handles food on their own schedule, with their own preferences, no negotiation required. Relationship therapist Erin Pash, founder and CEO of the counseling platform Caveman to Casanova, told the New York Post that the practice boils down to one thing: removing food from the daily list of things a couple has to fight about. The numbers behind the shift…Open
Teetotaling youngsters may find they are missing out on an important part of life. The post Will the Decline of Drinking Kill Socialization? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Will the Decline of Drinking Kill Socialization? Teetotaling youngsters may find they are missing out on an important part of life. (Room 76/Shutterstock) Older adults, according to new data from the UK , are 50 percent more likely than those under 40 to be regular drinkers. Alcohol consumption in the USA, meanwhile, is at a record low . The youth are more health-conscious, and appear to be increasingly risk-averse as well. This sensitivity to risk, as Whitaker et al. have written , refers not just to health consequences, but also to the potential embarrassment associated with public drunkenness. On the flip…Open
He was an NCAA Division I champ, went to the Olympics, was a champion in both Bellator and ONE, competed in the UFC at the end of his career, and capped off all of that by losing BOTH OF HIS LUNGS, getting a DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANT, and coming back for one more wrestling match after that: Does this mean Askren won every fight? Not at all. In fact, later in his career, he had a couple of particularly humiliating defeats. He lost to Jake Paul in a boxing match early in his career, back when pretty much nobody realized Paul had at least SOME SKILLS as a boxer: Worse yet, Askren was on the receiving end of one of the most iconic knockouts in UFC history. A brutal flying knee from Jorge Masvidal right at the beginning of the fight. It set a…Open
