ABSTRACT
Spouses can share more robust values that help them satisfy their interest in spending the remainder of their lives together. The common value that people often place on the spaces they inhabit can impact choices about how to structure the world, especially when such values are prevalent within a population. Values, interests, and desires are not always shared so passively. Shared values, interests, and desires can also organize collective decision-making by structuring the normative spaces within which group members make decisions. The interests and values people share qua group members can sometimes conflict with the values and interests that guide joint activities. But robustly shared values guide the unfolding of shared activities; so while such an individual might maintain a vestigial remnant of values that were once shared, the values will not continue to exist unless they are reconnected to shared activities.
