The Referendum can subtly poison formerly close and uncomplicated relationships, creating tensions between the married and the single, the childless and parents, careerists and the stay-at-home. It’s only exacerbated by the far greater range of options available to us now than even a few decades ago, when everyone had to follow the same drill: a job or housework, marriage, kids. So we’re all anxiously sizing up how everyone else’s decisions have worked out to reassure ourselves that our own are vindicated—that we are, in some sense, winning.
