You were just kind of hanging out in your neighborhood. You weren’t going out and meeting people from different parts of the country and parts of the world. Think about it: You didn’t go to college. There was this study done in Philadelphia in 1932 that found that ⅓ of couples that got married live within a 5 block radius of each other.
People back in the day would just marry people who lived close to them. I interviewed all these older people and talked to them about relationships. I want to be clear: The book is not, “It’s crazy! We have phones now!” The changes are far beyond the technology. How have texting, dating apps and other technology changed the way we think about love? I can’t think of any book I would really compare it to. We also interviewed all sorts of academics. We interviewed hundreds of people all across the world - we went to Tokyo and Paris and Wichita to really get a wide scope. I wrote it with this sociologist, Eric Klinenberg, and he helped me design this huge research project that we did.
It ended up being a sociology book that has my sense of humor, but it also has some academic heft to it.
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