Success Quote by Arnold H. Glasow

Marriage gets treated like a diagnosis and a cure in the same breath, and Glasow is counting on you to notice the absurdity. By splitting the psychiatrist's clientele into two clean halves, he mimics the fake precision of a business report: tidy categories, a comforting symmetry, a world that can be summarized in a pie chart. The joke is that human misery refuses that kind of accounting, yet we keep trying to make it add up.

The line lands because it attacks two cultural myths at once. First, that marriage is the default adult setting, the stabilizing institution that keeps your life from wobbling. Second, that not being married is a problem to be solved, a deficiency with an implied deadline. Glasow's punch is that both conditions generate the same need for repair. The institution is framed less as a solution than as a machine that produces anxiety in opposite directions: trapped versus left out, responsibility versus loneliness, compromise versus the fear of compromise.

As a businessman, Glasow's angle matters. He isn't diagnosing the psyche; he's diagnosing the stories society sells about the psyche, the way a market sells contradictory products: security and freedom, belonging and autonomy. The psychiatrist becomes a stand-in for modern self-management, the place you go when your personal life stops behaving like a well-run enterprise. Under the gag is a darker recognition: whichever box you check, the culture has a script ready to make you feel you're doing it wrong.