Dennis Prager introduces a theory on his show "Timeless Wisdom" and "The Male Female Hour," positing that something specific happens to many women around age 29 in modern society that causes them to suddenly question their life choices, identity, and relationships, potentially leading to a disproportionate number of marital breakups. He describes this phenomenon as an "alarm clock" or an "early life crisis" where women begin asking fundamental questions like "Who am I?" and "What do I want in life?" which can lead them to feel their current marriage is no longer suitable, even if they are happy. Prager shares anecdotes from callers, including a woman named Katie from Scottsdale who told her husband she didn't want to be married anymore despite loving him, and Catherine from Phoenix who identified with the feeling of knowing less about herself at 29 than ever before. Other callers, such as Hazen from Houston whose wife needed space after 50 years of marriage, Mike from Philadelphia whose wife of seven years left him due to infidelity citing she didn't know what she wanted, and Deborah from San Antonio who divorced her wonderful husband because she panicked about time running out and wondering if a better man existed, corroborate the theory. Prager suggests this shift may be driven by a cultural premium on youth and beauty, causing women to feel they have only a few good years left, or by a sense of having achieved early goals and now seeking more. He contrasts this with men, who he claims do not experience such a specific crisis at 29 but rather a broader midlife crisis later in life, and argues that the lack of wisdom taught through tradition or religion in modern society forces women to learn these lessons through painful personal experience. Prager advises young women to ask these existential questions earlier, around age 24, to avoid being blindsided by this crisis later, while acknowledging that his theory is based on observation and he has not heard it developed elsewhere. The segment includes repeated advertisements for PhD Weight Loss, offering a consultation at 864 644 1900 with a discount for mentioning Dennis Prager, and promotions for his website and radio programs. Ultimately, the discussion highlights how modern societal structures may inadvertently force women into existential turmoil during their late twenties, suggesting that earlier self-reflection could mitigate the devastating impact of this culturally induced crisis on marital stability and personal fulfillment. [Automatically generated summary]
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On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom, I have, I'm going to throw out a theory today that I once, I threw out once, and it is simply this this is about our society.
At this time, or at least for the last generation, something happens to a lot of women around age 29 in the way they look at life, so much so that it may in fact be a cause of a disproportionate number of marital breakups.
That's coming up on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager, and it starts right now.
I am old fashioned.
I like two sexes.
Yeah, and another thing, all of a sudden I don't like being married to what is known as a new woman.
I want a wife, not a competitor.
Competitor, competitor!
Talk about a bit this crying in the morning thing, this depression, you know, let's get that fixed.
That's what men think, isn't it?
What?
Unless you've got the answer, unless you can say, oh, I know this bloke in the year six road who could fix that, then there's no point bothering.
How do you rate women so well?
I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
I love him, I love him, and I don't care what you think.
I love him for the man he wants to be, and I love him for the man that he almost is.
What do people have rows about him?
Money, sex, sex, money.
He wants, she doesn't want.
She wants, he doesn't want?
Women have always been a big problem to me, Dr. Fosband.
Are you listening, Doctor?
Yes, yes, yes.
Go on, go on.
Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Dennis Prager Show, The Male Female Hour.
All righty there.
All right.
Throat.
Be good.
Ah, my friends, every week at this time we talk about men and women.
It's titled The Male Female Hour.
And I'm Dennis Prager, and I welcome you to a truly honest talk about men and women.
I mean, really honest.
There are times that it's so honest and so mature to use a term that has fallen out of common usage.
That I actually tell you that maybe kids under teenage years might not be appropriate for.
That's not the case this time, but it gives you an idea of how honest we do talk about these issues.
I'm going to throw out a theory today that I threw out once.
Do we have that letter, by the way?
Oh, is this it?
Good, yes.
I threw this out once or twice, perhaps, in the course of talking about.
Related ideas, but I never ever developed it.
And I fully acknowledge it is just a theory of mine based on observation.
It may, and it may not be.
Well, that's redundant.
If it may, then it may not.
You know, like when people say, well, maybe or maybe not, but maybe means maybe not.
Anyway, I'd love to get your reactions, and I suspect that, well, no, I think men may have something to say about this, but certainly I suspect a fair number of women.
And if not, not, we'll just find out.
But if I'm right, it was worth raising.
Because the consequences of this may affect people down the road, and not long down the road, as you will understand, quite considerably.
And that is this.
And I have believed this now for, let's see, oh, about 20, 25 years.
And it is simply this at least in our society at our time, I do not say at all that this is universal.
Most of my theories about men and women are universal.
This is not.
This is about our society at this time, or at least for the last generation.
Something happens to a lot of women around age 29 in the way they look at life, so much so that it may in fact be a cause of a disproportionate number of marital breakups.
If this resonates with you, Call me, male or female, but it is about females.
Males at 29 is no different than male at 25, male at 35.
Males may have a midlife crisis, which of course could be at 50, at 60, at 45, I don't know.
I would say those 45 to 65, I guess.
But that's a very broad period of time, and that we all know about.
There seems to be something that happens at around 29 to a lot of women who all of a sudden start asking.
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And it appears that at about age 29, a lot of women start asking, Who am I?
What am I?
What do I want in life?
Why am I here in this marriage, in this relationship, in this work, in whatever?
It's like it overtakes them.
It's like a.
If there's a midlife crisis for men, then I don't know.
Is this an early life crisis?
I don't know what to call it.
A 29 year.
It's almost like an alarm clock.
If I didn't see this in more than.
A few cases, then I would never even bring it to your attention.
And certainly, I wouldn't broadcast it on a national radio show.
I mean, it would be embarrassing if I knew two people that something happened to and then say, folks, you tell me, do you find an increase in dandruff at the age of 36?
I mean, it's not like that.
It's that I have just too often seen it.
I mentioned this once in passing.
And I received a number of responses.
Here's an example of one from a Katie in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Subject 29 is the magic number?
Please, please, please expand on this, Dennis, and then.
Three exclamation points.
This woman is into trinities.
Please, please, please.
Three exclamation points.
I have to know the theory.
I am 29 and have undergone tremendous changes in the past year.
I actually just told my husband the other night that I don't want to be married to him anymore.
I love him and I don't want to end it, but he is such a miserable selfish pain.
Anyhow, this is just one of the many quote-unquote changes.
If you have some insight into this, then we, the royal we, need it.
Then it's one exclamation point.
Alrighty, so let's see.
By the way, if this is so, if there really is this phenomenon in our society, then there should be some.
It should have some effect on marital decisions that men and women make.
And I'll talk about that.
It doesn't mean you don't marry a woman under 29, but it means that care be taken by the woman and the man has she.
Thought through a lot of things already, if it's even possible to do so in every case.
All right, Catherine in Phoenix, Arizona.
Catherine Dennis Prager, hi.
Hi, thanks so much for taking my call.
Thank you.
As soon as I heard what you were saying, I stopped dead in my tracks and just picked up my ears.
I completely identify with everything you've just said.
I think it's whether you're single.
Wait, you are 29.
I am 29, and I am single.
I'm in a serious, committed relationship.
But you start going through this phase of just asking all these questions, and you feel like you know less now than you've ever known in your life.
And it's hard to make decisions because it's kind of what the caller, Katie from Scottsdale, you know, she's having major attitudes now, but I feel like it happens when you're single or married.
Yes.
And I would love to hear more.
So wait, I want you, I want to hear a little more from you.
Tell me what this alarm clock at age 29 alarmed you about.
You start to ask career questions.
You start to ask, where am I headed in my life?
What am I doing?
Is it the right thing?
But you're kind of at a point where if you are single, I don't know if it's the biological clock, but something's ticking and makes you feel like, well, if you're not married, you're either doing something wrong or you need to get on that bandwagon pretty soon.
Right, but the women, but again, as I said, so many of the women wonder why they got married.
I know.
So it is an alarm clock.
Did it take you by surprise?
A girlfriend and I, we have lots of theories.
Around 26, she was a year ahead.
She was at 27.
She says, Catherine, you're going to start going through a point in your life where things just don't make sense.
And she was right.
I feel like it starts happening around 26.
And 29, I feel like it is stronger than it ever has been.
And I'm just kind of trucking around.
By the way, you want Katie's email address?
Maybe you could stop.
You want Katie's email address, your neighbor's?
Sure.
I can't do that.
No, I'm just kidding.
It would be fun, though, to have like the 29 year old woman's club where you can all sit and say how confusing life is.
It's like, you know, I pray for answers and I just kind of take it day by day.
All right.
Well, we'll have a lot of people.
I mean, we're just overloaded already with.
Thank you.
Thank you, Catherine.
I appreciate it.
I think I'm on to something here.
And have you ever heard it beyond me saying this?
And I'm not sitting here to tell you I'm terrific.
I just, I've not seen it mentioned.
And why in our society is it happening in Uzbekistan and in Paraguay?
I don't know.
All right.
We'll take more of your calls.
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This is the male female hour on the Dennis Prager Show, and I'm Dennis Prager.
And I try to be as transparent as possible, and it has its risks, but the benefits so far outweigh.
The risks.
And therefore, when people say to me, you know, Dennis, I feel like I know you, you do.
You do know me.
This is me.
And the transparency that I'm about to offer you is what went into my making this hour on this subject.
It is something I have thought about for 25 years.
But I gambled, in effect, in making this a subject for the male female hour because what if my theory was cockamamie?
I never read about it.
Nobody else told this to me.
And so we really debated, Alan and I, over this.
He wanted it sooner than I.
I finally felt, look, let's take the risk.
And yet I look at these calls and I do think I'm onto something here.
And if I am, it's a very important thing to know because the better people know themselves and the better the sexes know each other, the more chance there is for good relations between the sex and a happier life.
And it's a very simple theory.
I hope it's not simplistic, but it is simple.
Something happens to women and many women in our society around age 29.
Rethinking everything.
A, is it true?
B, if it is true, why is it so?
So let's first see, is it true?
And get some more calls here.
We go to Houston, Texas.
And is your name Hazen?
Yes, sir, it is.
Hi, Hazen.
Dennis Prager, thanks for calling.
Good afternoon, Mr. Prager.
I think to answer your two questions right there, I think yes, you're on to something.
And I can only ponder a guess.
But I think between the.
Well, tell us why you think I'm onto something.
Tell us your own experience with this.
Well, I celebrated my 50 year anniversary last weekend with my wife.
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Got two lovely boys, and she needs time and space.
How old is she?
She's 30.
There you go.
Okay.
And did it seem to come out of nowhere?
Out of nowhere.
It just absolutely blindsided me.
She's needed time and space.
And I'm to the point where, as I told your screener, you know, what are you doing?
I've given you everything you've ever wanted.
Your stay to a mom, beautiful house.
Healthy boys, love you.
Everything I have is in your hands.
Run with it.
And she's all of a sudden now not happy.
And I think she's not happy because what she's realizing, this is where my pop psychology comes in, she doesn't know how to love.
She doesn't know if it's primal and like 1950s ish or if it's by being a strong, independent, career minded woman.
I think she's got to be torn up.
The biological, as your earlier caller said about the biological clock.
Yeah, but she has already met her biological clock.
She has two kids.
So there's no clock ticking.
No, your previous caller addressed that.
And what I wanted to say is this clock has been met.
And that part of the equation in my world is out.
So now she's saying, okay, well, now I have everything I ever wanted.
And now, well, what is it that I really want?
You intimated that earlier.
That's exactly right.
Hazen, I just want you to know this is of no help to you, but my heart goes out to you.
Please know that.
I'm not casting any villains here.
But by the way, there are times I do.
I don't hesitate for making moral judgments.
But I just want to say here that my heart goes out to a guy.
If what he describes is accurate, I mean, he is blindsided.
What did I do wrong?
He must wake up, pinch himself, and ask, well, isn't this like the dream of women?
And, folks, I'm not saying this as a condemnation or anything.
I'm saying this is so we need to understand if the phenomenon is true, we need to know that.
And if it is true, we need to figure out why.
Because.
Of a lot of gratuitous pain that occurs between humans.
Mike in Philadelphia, you're on the Dennis Prager Show.
Dennis, thank you so much for taking my call.
You are definitely on something here.
I was married for seven years, and my wife, well, ex wife, is 29 and literally got blindsided just like your other callers.
You're 33 now?
Yes.
You have kids?
Yes.
No.
You were married seven years, so you married.
She was 22 when she married?
Yes.
Were you the same age?
No.
What were you?
I was.
I'm trying.
Four years older.
Oh, I see.
This just happened.
Yes, just about a year ago.
And you felt blindsided as well?
Absolutely.
Just one day I found out that there was an infancy.
That there was a what?
There was a what?
Infidelity.
Infidelity, yeah.
You're breaking up a little.
Okay, an infidelity.
And what did she say to you?
What were her words?
She doesn't know what she wants.
Boy, I tell you.
And this was after years of marriage, home, everything.
We were kind of moving towards a shared goal, and then all of a sudden I was kind of left on my own.
And you loved her?
Absolutely.
Without a doubt.
Wow.
All right, Mike, I thank you so much.
And, you know, you'll certainly meet somebody and have a happy life.
I'm convinced of that.
It's really, I mean, folks, if you throw out something like this, look, if you have a big enough audience, I'm not foolish.
I understand that if you have a large enough audience, a selection of humanity, then, you know, perhaps I could have said that men at 29, this happens.
But I don't think I would have filled up the lines like this with stories like this.
My husband changed at 29.
I don't think that happens in 001% of the cases.
All right, now we'll have enough time for me to offer what I think we might want to learn from this, but it's so important to hear from as many of you as possible.
We go to Anaheim and Teresa.
Hello, Teresa.
Dennis Prager.
Hi, Dennis.
How are you doing?
I'm well.
Thank you.
Good.
Well, here is an opinion, 60 plus point of view, kind of an overview of the various milestones in a woman's life.
I think men seem to only have one milestone, and that would be midlife, whenever that happens for them.
Right.
And they.
They try to feel younger, so they try to get thinner and they try to get a younger woman.
But a woman realizes about 29, she's really come of age when she says, wow, you know, okay, life is passing by really quickly.
Either I need to have a child, if I'm childless, or I need to go back to school, or I need to get a better job.
And I think the reason behind this is that a woman always seems to want to get better.
Men seem to feel like they've arrived.
You know, they have their job, so they do their job and they come home, and that's it.
I'll be 63 in a few days.
And right now, I mean, I want to do it all.
I want to.
You know, try different fun jobs after I retire.
I want to enjoy the grandkids.
I want to travel.
I think women are more well rounded.
I think that kind of adds to the problem of what men seem to think is confusing in a way because you don't know what's happening in our minds.
And I think women are just more well rounded than men.
So, what happens at 29 is a virtue?
Well, I think it's an awakening.
And I think women are getting married too soon.
They should stay.
Well, that, by the way, is one of the questions I want to discuss here.
If there is a lesson here, is that one of the conclusions to be drawn?
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I think if we had 100 Lines to the studio, 100 lines would be lit up.
And with, apparently, with examples of what I am talking about.
1 8 Prager 776 is the number if you can get in, and it's worth trying.
People drop off or whatever happens.
But in any event, the subject on this male female hour, every week at this time I devote an hour to male female issues, is a theory of mine that I. Don't claim I is unique to me, but I haven't heard it elsewhere, and that is that something happens around age 29 to a great many women in our society, and it's almost like an alarm clock goes off, and brand new questions about their whole life arise.
And as you've heard, men calling up and saying, out of nowhere, in a seemingly happy, loving marriage, their wife wants a divorce out of nowhere.
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He has had no affair, and you know, no, I mean, everything seemed to be great.
It seems to come out of nowhere.
And it seems to come out of nowhere to the woman, too.
It's not just to the man.
And if this is true, then we have to figure out why.
And once we figure out why, let's figure out what we can do about that.
And let's go to Deborah in San Antonio, Texas.
Hi, Deborah.
Dennis Prager.
Hi, Dennis.
First of all, I want to say that your idea is not cockamamie.
I would call you many things, but never cockamamie.
Well, I wouldn't call me cockamamie either.
The question was whether the idea was, not me.
No, no, okay.
Go ahead.
I won't make that connection then.
Okay.
I was just going to tell you that when I was about 30, I had exactly what you're describing happen to me, and I've seen it happen to my girlfriends.
I'm 50 now, but I remember this very vividly.
And what happens, in my opinion, is that women feel time passing so much more quickly than men do.
And my theory is that our culture places so much value on youth and beauty.
And when a woman starts getting close to 30, we begin to feel that we only have a few good years left.
And suddenly there's a panic to wonder is there something better?
With these few good years, it's kind of like listening to the radio, and you like the song that's on, but what if there's something better?
So you switch stations.
And that's what happened with me.
I walked away from a very content, perfectly good life because I panicked, because I thought time is slipping away, time is running out.
And what if there was something better for me?
What if I could have done better?
What if there could have been more for me?
Or a better man.
I'm sorry?
Or a better man.
Well, maybe that.
I was married to a wonderful man.
Well, wait, wait.
Did you stay married?
No, I got a divorce.
All right.
So then what I said was accurate.
That part of the what if there was something better was what if there's a better man?
You yourself said, I'll switch stations.
Sure.
I think that was part of it.
Could there be a better marriage?
Okay, fine.
All right.
And in retrospect, by the way, did you remarry?
I did.
Okay, well, so it's hard to ask because it doesn't reflect on your current marriage, but I'll still ask.
And please know that it doesn't reflect.
You may have the most wonderful marriage in the world, but in retrospect, do you think it was worthy of divorcing over?
No, I wish I had been more mature.
I'm so happy with my marriage now.
Okay, well, you are an honest woman because you see, it would be tempting for you to say, well, since I'm so happily married now, I realize it was the right decision, but you answered me very honestly, and I salute you for that.
You're a very deep person.
And I appreciate that call.
But this is exactly why I raised this.
And it was a gamble, as I said, because what if I was just wrong?
And people would think the guy has this bizarre theory.
He met two women in his life or heard about two cases, and now he's generalizing.
You know my theory anyway generalizations are the mother of wisdom, but of course, a wrong generalization is the mother of foolishness.
So it better darn well be a good generalization, or you don't have a very clear view of the world.
I think this is clear.
So I will take more calls, but I think now we have to ask, and I will have to start thinking through with you if this is true, and apparently it is, what can be done to forestall tragedy?
And one answer I'll tell you right now was just given by Deborah.
It's called maturity.
And that is not something we aim for much in this society.
It's a big problem.
Male Female Hour, Dennis Prager Show.
Well, to my satisfaction, and I'm Dennis Prager, and this is the Male Female Hour.
To my intellectual satisfaction, I think we've established that my theory has a basis in reality.
That in and of itself is worth talking about, by the way, how you come to understand life.
Based on your own experiences, whether your experiences are atypical or not.
I mean, there's a lot in that whole issue of what you can learn from your own observations.
Because remember, college makes you stupider.
I mean that literally.
I don't mean it's an attack, but I don't mean it to be an attack.
I mean it literally.
It makes you stupider in part because it says what you observe means nothing, the only thing you can ever learn from are studies.
And so we become stupider when we look at life.
Anyway, that's a side issue, but a very important side issue, hence I mentioned it.
My theory is that for many women in our society, I'm not speaking about other societies or historically, around the age of 29, for many women, some alarm clock goes off out of nowhere seemingly and asks the ultimate questions of life.
What am I?
Who am I?
What am I doing here?
Whatever the here is.
Why am I single?
Why am I married?
Why do I have kids?
Why don't I have this job?
Why aren't I traveling?
Why aren't I staying home?
Why aren't I this?
Who am I?
What will be the best year?
Like some of you were so eloquent.
By the way, it's my point.
You remember that?
When people are passionate, they become eloquent.
And some of you have truly been.
And you feel women do in our society, at any rate, with the premium on youth and beauty.
Oh, how many years?
That was really revelatory for many people, I think.
How many years do I have left at this worth?
And have I done the very best I can do with this?
It's almost like I have a treasure.
The treasure is now starting to flow through my hands before it dissipates.
What can I do?
What do I even want to do?
Is what many women ask now.
And this last woman, I mean, just honestly saying, as great as her current marriage is, that there was no good reason for her to divorce at 30, but she did.
Dallas, Texas, and Julieta.
Julieta Dennis Prager, thank you for calling.
How old are you?
I am 21, sir.
Oh, so you have eight years to look forward to.
Sounds like it.
I listen to you all the time, and I don't think I've ever been as interested in a topic as this one.
I told your screener, I'm 21 and I know that I'm young and all this stuff, but I think that it doesn't necessarily deal with being 29.
I think the factor that you have to look at is.
If you have a goal in mind and if you've achieved it, uhm, I am currently in law school.
I finished college in two and a half years.
I'm kind of just on the fast track.
And I, I think I had something like this.
I don't think to the same extent because I'm single and, you know, I still live with my parents trying to save money.
But I think I came to the point where I was just thinking, you know, I've done everything.
Like, what am I going to do when I graduate?
I'm just going to have a job and then what?
And then, you know, I'm going to have a job.
You have speeded up your life, is what you're saying, and you're asking these questions already?
Not necessarily speeded up my life.
I'm happy with where I am.
I think it's just the idea of having some goal in mind, and I've already.
I don't think it happens for 29-year-olds later because, I mean, not everybody goes through it the same place.
Right.
Well, I somehow wish, it's very rare that I ever want to visit the future.
I have no desire to see the future.
But if I could have a call with you in eight years, I would love that.
I mean, in other words, now, if I could somehow visit the future, I'd like to know if all of your goal setting and obviously terrific attainments at your age, you sound like a remarkable young woman, will in some way militate against your going through this experience at 29.
I just don't know.
I'm agnostic on the issue.
I'm not predicting it will, Julieta.
I can't say this to women, though.
It is worth asking these big questions before 29.
You see, because no wisdom is given over in college, none, zero.
In fact, it's anti wisdom.
I think that that's a factor.
This is about seven, eight years after college for many women.
They have had time to undo the foolishness.
That college has instilled in them, like profession is everything, or indeed to assimilate it, whatever it might be.
I don't think that that's the only factor by any means, but I think it is a factor.
Kids are not made wise today.
They're made educated, but they're not made wise.
Religion, which was a major factor in wisdom teaching, kids would learn Proverbs, for example.
Most kids today never heard of the book of Proverbs.
So today there are no aphorisms even in their lives.
They don't know what the word aphorism means for that matter.
And so they don't get wisdom, and so wisdom is achieved only through experience.
Now, experience is a great teacher, but if only experience teaches, and we learn nothing from our elders or from traditions that precede our elders, then we will all be fools until we experience life.
And it shouldn't have to be that way.
The whole point is to learn about life as best as possible without having to experience it.
When I was a kid, I used to say, if a hundred people in front of me are walking, In a certain direction, and they all fall off a cliff.
I don't feel it necessary to fall off that cliff.
I take their word for it, I will fall off the cliff too.
That's not to say that life hasn't taught me an immense amount, it certainly has.
But I did believe that there was wisdom that preceded me, and these are questions I would advise every young woman listening to ask herself Who am I?
What do I really want in life?
What is really important?
Ask those questions now.
The sooner you ask them, the less that alarm clock will be loud.
When life will force you to ask those questions.
What sort of man do I really want?
What sort of marriage?
Do I believe that marriage is at least as important as career?
What about children?
In fact, it's funny because we were debating the other subject I was thinking of doing for this hour how children can adversely affect the relationship between husband and wife.
I'm going to talk about that, obviously, another week.
But that is something to think about in advance.
The more that life hits you with surprises, the less able we are to deal with them.
The more we can think through in advance, the better we will be able to deal with life.
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So for young women, knowing that 29 may all of a sudden pose all these questions, ask them now at 24.
And help others, ask others to help you answer them.
There are people over 30 who have wisdom.
Back in a moment, I'm Dennis Prager.
This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.
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What happens to women at 29?
Jessica, Minneapolis, Dennis Prager.
Hi.
Hi, Dennis.
I'm just shaking.
I can't believe I'm not alone in this.
I'm 29 and I've been married nine years and I have three kids and I'm secure in my marriage.
My husband went through a, I don't know if you'd call it a quarter life crisis at 26, and I was forced to deal with that whole year.
Why am I in this marriage?
Is it worth it?
And we worked through that and I feel very secure and solid in my marriage.
But I feel like since I've turned 29, I've had a crisis in every other one of my relationships.
I've stopped talking to my mom, who's been emotionally abusive my whole life.
I've evaluated every single friendship I have.
I feel like I'm going through a crisis of faith.
What is real?
What does God want from me?
Who do I believe?
And who is right?
And what am I supposed to be doing?
What am I doing here?
What is my purpose?
It's nice to know that I'm not alone.
And I'm so glad you're doing this hour.
Oh, thank you for telling me.
You are not alone, Jessica.
It seems to me that women who go through that age and don't have this issue, they're more in the minority than you are.
I will have a lot to say about this in ensuing weeks, by the way.
But I did want to get to.
Who was this?
John, was that right?
Yes, John in Los Angeles, Dennis Prager.
Hi.
Hi, Dennis.
How are you?
Okay, thank you.
So I completely agree with you.
I heard it when you, I think one time you had mentioned it previously.
And I just happened to hear that snippet.
And I thought I was going to cry because I went through it three years ago when my wife just turned 29.
And we had been planning our wedding and our kids and started building our dream house.
And we spent five years together.
And it was the weekend after Thanksgiving.
And we just had family over.
And she cooked.
And everything was so happy.
And I came home from work and she said that she thinks we're moving in different directions.
That's right.
All right.
What does it all mean?
That's why I invite you to future editions of the Male Female Hour.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Tomorrow, on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.
The subject is that the pursuit of a perfect world, of a perfect society, produces hell.
The examples are legion, where people have this vision oh, if we only remake society.
In the image that I can imagine it, then it will be great.
It will be perfect.
People will love each other.
It will be a beautiful world.
Join us tomorrow to hear more on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.
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