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In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.
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As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the ideal image.
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Americans are right to believe the American Dream is fading. But that dream only became a possibility for white men as a result of the labor struggles and reforms of the New Deal, and it began to extend to minorities and women only after the civil rights and women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Usually, Valentine's Day comes and goes with just a day or two of news media attention to courtship and marriage.
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Contrary to the fears of some pundits, the ascent of women does not portend the end of men. It offers a new beginning for both. But women's progress by itself is not a panacea for America's inequities.
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For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this emotional hangover still lingers.
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When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.
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Many alternatives to traditional marriage have emerged. People feel free to shop around, experimenting with several living arrangements in succession. And when people do marry, they have different expectations and goals.
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There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.
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Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.
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The growing diversity of family life comes with new possibilities as well as new challenges.
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Valentine's Day is a perfect time to reject the idea that the ideal man is taller, richer, more knowledgeable, more renowned, or more powerful.
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