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Interestingly, I feel the opposite: people aren’t getting married because they don’t feel compelled to by society. Marriage is more highly valued than before.
by btgeekboy 8y ago
Interestingly, I feel the opposite: people aren’t getting married because they don’t feel compelled to by society. Marriage is more highly valued than before.
Personally, I’m mid-30s. I’ve been in a long term relationship that, had I lived decades prior, would have been a marriage and ultimately a divorce. She wasn’t right for me, but it was hard to discern at first. Now, if/when I get married, it’s for life - divorce isn’t on the table, and I need to find someone that I’m comfortable marrying with that constraint.
- borplk 8y agoSociety imposes a very heavy fine for the breakup of a marriage and it becomes a huge gamble. Either it will work out and you'll be happy and you'll recommend it to everyone. Or it will destroy your life. If marriage was "cheap" to establish and break up people could do it naturally and peacefully, eventually and successfully move to stable ones if the first attempt doesn't work out. When the risk taking a particular action gets high enough it's completely understandable why many rational people would avoid testing their luck.