Impaired Couples

For Success in Marriage, a Paradigm Shift Is Needed

Career coach Angelina Darrisaw says the most common message she hears from millennials could be summed up as, "I'm not sure what I want." She's talking primarily about young professionals who have not only graduated from college, but have landed good jobs with promising long-term prospects. Yet when they open up, she says, this is what she hears: "Tell me the answer. Tell me what I want or what to do next." If any one word could capture the aura of this demographic, I think it would be bewilderment.

Case in point: social researchers Brian Willoughby and Spencer James set out to explore emerging adults' thoughts and feelings on marriage, as part of Oxford...