{"id":7878,"date":"2025-12-19T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7878"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:31:42","slug":"tgfi-volume-535-marrying-young-and-the-depths-of-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/12\/19\/tgfi-volume-535-marrying-young-and-the-depths-of-tolkien","title":{"rendered":"TGFI, Volume 535: marrying young and the depths of Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues like\u00adly to be of inter\u00adest to Chris\u00adtians in col\u00adlege. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions, so if you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. The Broth\u00ader I Lost<\/a> (Megan McAr\u00addle, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cFor as long as I can remem\u00adber, I have believed that a woman should be able to decide whether to become a moth\u00ader, and also believed that the life grow\u00ading inside her should get the same shot as the rest of us at life, lib\u00ader\u00adty, and the pur\u00adsuit of hap\u00adpi\u00adness. Since these two beliefs are fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adly incom\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adble, I usu\u00adal\u00adly man\u00adaged the con\u00adtra\u00addic\u00adtion by avoid\u00ading the sub\u00adject.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Tough Love: I Don\u2019t Want My 22-Year-Old to Get Mar\u00adried<\/a> (Abi\u00adgail Shri\u00ader, The Free Press): \u201cIn case you don\u2019t know how most young women your daughter\u2019s age are spend\u00ading their twen\u00adties, allow me to fill you in: surf\u00ading dat\u00ading apps, grow\u00ading more cyn\u00adi\u00adcal and jad\u00aded by the year, main\u00adtain\u00ading \u2018sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion\u00adships\u2019 with hot guys who sleep with them when\u00adev\u00ader it suits them and van\u00adish when it doesn\u2019t. An entire gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of young women are let\u00adting their most for\u00adma\u00adtive, eli\u00adgi\u00adble decade slip through their fin\u00adgers like olive oil. A hun\u00addred first dates. Dozens of booty calls. Learn\u00ading little\u2014because you can\u00adnot learn much from a non-relationship\u2014calling it \u2018self-knowl\u00adedge\u2019 while gain\u00ading noth\u00ading but UTIs and a draw\u00ader\u00adful of Plan B.\u2026 the truth is: No one\u2019s ever mature enough for mar\u00adriage. No one\u2019s ever entire\u00adly ready. Nor for the labors and joys of moth\u00ader\u00adhood. We splash through these stages a lit\u00adtle bat\u00adty and half-blind. If we meet the demands, they change us. That much is inevitable. But until we start to swim, we nev\u00ader real\u00adly know we can.\u201d\n