Is It Good for Man to Be Alone Now? by John M. Grondelski

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing, April 11, 2025

Our media are intermittently stirred up over the decline of marriage in American society.  Many factors play into that phenomenon: confusion over the very definition of “marriage” and its substitution by ersatz stand-ins; economic insecurity that deters young people, especially young men, from entering adult life; a split between “adult” and “professional” life, in which there are gender differences; differing and often unrealistic expectations of marriage; the decline of religious commitment, expressed in religious marriage with a co-religionist, etc.

All these factors feed into the eclipse of marriage.  But perhaps there’s one other that we just don’t take much into account because, like the air we breathe, it affects us, but we don’t notice it.  It’s how we view the “normal” human person.  Is the “normal” person naturally situated in a communion of persons such as marriage, or is he a rugged individualist for whom marriage is perhaps an “add-on” but not a “fulfillment?” …

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