Salon.com > Job loss http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 15:36:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Love in the time of layoffs http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/love_in_the_time_of_layoffs/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/love_in_the_time_of_layoffs/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:12:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12972091 What does love feel like when you don’t know what tomorrow will bring? When life as you imagined it seems further and further out of reach? How do you know when it’s time to hold on to what you’ve got, or let go in the face of mounting anxiety? What if you’re so stressed out you can’t even think?

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Trends like restructuring, privatization, mergers, downsizing, and relentlessly high unemployment are transforming intimate relationships. Chronic job insecurity is shifting the way we approach the idea of hooking up, having sex, staying together, and starting families. And it might just be changing the very nature of romance.

One minute you’re happily planning a life together and talking about having kids. Then, suddenly, everything changes.

Conservatives are forever preaching about family values, but their job-destroying, anti-worker policies have made it harder and harder for young people to put down roots and reach the level of stability required for long-term relationships and children.

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