Fifty years ago the great majority “Successful Couples” involved a hard working man with a hard working woman behind the family structure they created. In modern times, there may not be a whole lot different in the partners’ personalities (ambitious women are still attracted to ambitious men) but in the physical reality there is a stark difference - the fact that now the hard working women are not focusing their efforts on the family structure.

It would be nice to say that all men are realizing the ambitions of modern day women and are making strides to meet their partners half way and do the hard work that a good relationship and family needs to persist through the challenges of life. However this is just not true. Therefore many “Successful Couple” relationships are failing because of a general neglect of the upkeep that any relationship/family structure demands.

Is this too obvious of a phenomenon to require an article on the ABA? Absolutely not, just like ambitious men, ambitious women have half the responsibility of the modern marriage and many of them thinking only of their professional ambitions need to be reminded (just like men do) that successful relationships (just like successful careers) need hard work and attention.

Is it earth-shattering that ladies need loving husbands? No, but ambitious young women thinking of marriage most definitely need a loving man to meet them halfway, and this article seems to be giving them a signal of what might happen (and what has happened to their peers) if they don’t proceed into a “Successful Couple” marriage carefully.