No one really gives you a heads-up about what to expect when you get married, do they? Funny how life works8212schools will teach you how to measure the angles of a triangle (which, let's be honest, 99% of us will never need), but something as fundamental as understanding human relationships? Nope. Who needs that, right? 8220Parallel lines? Essential. Understanding why your spouse is suddenly mad? Overrated.8221 Which got me thinking8212was this whole marriage thing engineered to fail? Hear me out. Could it be that big corporations and the government want us to crash and burn? Think about it: a failed marriage doesn8217t just break hearts8212it powers entire industries. Divorce lawyers crack open champagne and bill by the hour, so go ahead and take three hours to explain why he leaves cabinet doors open like a sociopath.The beauty industry8217s armed with mommy makeovers and 8220revolutionary8221 diet pills. Then there8217s the parade of dating apps charging you 39.99 a month to find 8220The One8221 (again!).Therapists make a killing reminding you that screaming &CALMDOWN&has never actually calmed anyone. And don8217t forget car dealerships8212because nothing screams 8220I8217m totally over it8221 like a freshly minted single dad in a shiny new convertible8230 Seriously, a messy divorce fuels at least 30 industries. Who were we supposed to learn this from anyway? Hollywood? The same people who treat weddings like blockbuster premieres and divorces like red carpet events? Let8217s face it: the bar is on the floor. And speaking of low bars, let8217s rewind to our first day of school. Remember being an eager little sponge, ready to soak up lifechanging knowledge? What did they teach us? How to calculate the area of a triangle and solve for x. Life. Altering. Stuff. Meanwhile, the tools for managing communication, relationships, marriage8212or, even a basic argument? Total silence. It8217s like the curriculum board said, 8220Memorizing the periodic table? Life or death. Emotional intelligence? Meh, they8217ll wing it.8221Spoiler alert: we didn8217t