The Slow Death of the Well-Suited Couple

I went to high school in the ’90s, out in rural Indiana. I was involved in sports, so I got to know a good number of people from surrounding counties—places where everyone had a well pump, a church, and at least one cousin they didn’t talk to.

Back then, you’d see a chubby guy and a chubby girl start dating, and it wasn’t strange. It was normal. Common. …