Warren St. John assesses the irresistable impulse to which married people succomb around single people: the obsessive compulsion to facilitate hook-ups, dates—and hopefully marriages—lest the poor wretched singletons spend the rest of their days rotting away in a miserable state of Alone. The motivations behind this sort of behavior range from a need to live vicariously through single friends to genuine concern for the happiness of the single person in question. But the primary attraction for most of the marrieds is, of course, the day-after gossip.
Bob, meet Jane. And give me the details. [NYT]

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