It didn't used to be that way. The academic job market melted down in the 1980s and now commuter marriages are the norm. These days, there are too many PhDs and

It didn't used to be that way. The academic job market melted down in the 1980s and now commuter marriages are the norm. These days, there are too many PhDs and few full-time faculty positions. It's horrible, but academia doesn't have to be that way, and wasn't always.