The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life

Before the spreadsheet, I had an idea I think many share: Marriage and family should more or less work. Good marriages and happy families are born of love and care, not spreadsheets and a daily happiness score. People’s weird ideas about gender, about mothers and fathers and marriage and nuclear families, about who should do what and how much of it, about what really makes us happy, are deeply entrenched, often in ways we don’t even recognize.

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