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It’s Good to Have a Wife: (It’s Also Good to Have a Husband)

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It’s Good to Have a Wife: (It’s Also Good to Have a Husband)

By: Joshua Z. Tabin
Narrated by: Joshua Z. Tabin
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Somewhere in the last 50 years, men and women forgot how to need each other. We convinced ourselves that independence was the highest virtue, that marriage was optional, and that gender roles were oppression. How's that working out? Marriage rates are at historic lows. Birth rates are collapsing. A generation of women have optimized their lives for singleness and can't figure out why their perfect apartments feel so empty. A generation of men have been told their masculinity is toxic and now drift through life without purpose, direction, or a reason to grow up. Everyone's on dating apps, nobody's committing, and the therapy industry has never been busier.

It's Good To Have a Wife is a sharp, funny, and refreshingly honest look at what broke and what it would take to fix it.

This audiobook explores:

  • How the pursuit of independence became a trap that left everyone lonely.
  • Why "finding yourself" before commitment is a myth that keeps you waiting for a moment that never arrives.
  • What men are actually for (provision, protection, direction — yes, really).
  • What women are actually for (continuity, cultivation, creation — yes, deal with it).
  • Why delaying marriage and children until you're "ready" usually means delaying until it's too late.
  • How two people optimized for singleness can't figure out how to share a thermostat, let alone a life.
  • Why your therapy bills are so high?

This isn't an audiobook about going back to 1950. It's not a religious sermon or a political manifesto. It's a practical, evidence-based argument for an unfashionable truth: human beings aren't designed to go it alone. Men need women. Women need men. Children need both. And a civilization that forgets this won't remain a civilization for long.

Written with a bit of irreverent humor and a refusal to flatter modern sensibilities, this audiobook speaks to anyone who suspects that the current arrangement isn't working, whether married or single, frustrated or hopeful, quietly skeptical, or loudly confused.

©2025 Joshua Z. Tabin (P)2026 Joshua Z. Tabin
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