Is marriage over? The major trend isn’t a rise in single parenthood; it’s a decline in the formality of marriage. People still couple up. They still live together. They still have sex, rear babies, and pool resources. They’re just not getting married. They’re not subjecting their relationships to the bundle of rights and responsibilities that governments call ‘marriage’.
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I see no reason for marriage, or even cohabitation. Exceptions might have to do with financial or medical security (such as being able to have medical insurance) or legal rights to properly care for one another.
Can you put your "room mate" on your health insurance? It's things like that which will keep it around.
That and I can only imagine how much more difficult things would have been with my late husband's mother if we had not been married whatwith her propensity for creating scenes at the hospital when he was dying. Yeah naaaa. It's all fun and games until you're left lying around in your own stool when your time's up.
Her bullshit would have had him alone unless banker's hours, at risk of dying alone.
Yes you can put your room-mate/partner on your health insurance in Canada after 1 year of co-habitation, or 6 months in some union contracts. I have.
If it is over that is okay. Where I live, common-law relationships among the younger people is way more common than marriages. Perhaps watching the boomers go through all of their divorces taught Gen X and millenials to delay or avoid marriage?? hehe
I hope it's over. My observations are that marruage is one of the fastest ways to destroy a relationship. You see people live together for years so they decide to get married. Then within 6 mths they're divorced
It is an actual thing, studies confirm it!
@AnneWimsey I have wondered if the cause of the bust is because they got married or because they thought marriage could fix something already breaking. Still not a fan of marriage though
One of my psych professors said, "Marriage is the best way to fuck up a good relationship."
@Cyklone I suspect it is because they think a marriage will fix a broken relationship. Sadly, I think this is also a common reason to have children.
@itsmedammit yes, and 5 years down the track after 2 kids and a divorce they realise they should never have dated in the first place