Those familiar with the atmosphere on college campuses over the past decade or so will recognize the plight of this student from Dartmouth. The author, in the style of The New York Times’ Modern Love column for The Dartmouth, writes of her dissatisfaction with relationships at her school, not simply because of the lack of privacy afforded at a small school, but the tendency of students to treat everything from hookups and “situationships” to dating relationships as “casual and meaningless.” Her concerns echo those of a growing number of young people who, as documented in Christine Emba’s recent book Rethinking Sex, find the sexual culture increasingly dysfunctional, anti-relationship, anti-intimacy, and anti-person.

Matthew Fray wants to warn all husbands before it’s too late: when it comes to marriage, sweat the small stuff. Fray, who penned the widely circulated “She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes By the Sink,” knows a thing or two about divorce. “I didn’t respect my wife’s thoughts and feelings about things I mistakenly believed didn’t matter” – namely, leaving his glass by the sink for later use despite her entreaties – “I didn’t realize it until much too late: Good men can be bad husbands.” Today, he is a relationship coach who advises men on how to be better husbands. But while his work seeks to warn absent-minded husbands against dismissing their wives’ needs and wants, Fray’s contention reveals a deeper issue at hand in marriages today.