Wow, this hasn't been up very long and I think the discussion here could already use some more empathy. Looking at marriage as an institution is maybe not the b

Wow, this hasn't been up very long and I think the discussion here could already use some more empathy. Looking at marriage as an institution is maybe not the best way to approach the issues that people are going to try and bring up in this sort of discussion. How about this recent piece from The Atlantic, "Love in the Time of Individualism"? https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/09/love-in-the-time-of-individualism/540474/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/09/love-in-t... It seems two-pronged, to me. And people are gonna feel aggrieved, probably rightly to some degree, no matter which side they wind up on. For women, men are frustratingly even LESS likely to commit and stick around for any length of time these days: “It’s not that love is dead, but the sexual incentives for men to sacrifice and commit have largely dissolved, spelling a more confusing and circuitous path to commitment and marriage than earlier eras.” And for men, the numbers are simply massively against you and you're facing a huge time investment simply to meet one single person who probably won't even like you that much - why would you bother?: "Popular dating apps put women in the position of gatekeeping, whether deliberately or not. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a smartphone will swipe right on basically everyone. This forces women to be choosier about who they say yes to. Even if they also swipe with abandon, they end up with more matches to sort through—yet more gatekeeping." So tl;dr, we're all (not) screwed. Of course, these sorts of pieces tend to focus on traditional heterosexual relationships, so this all might dissolve (maybe into similar or totally different issues) with LGBTQ relationships; I don't pretend to know.