I often wonder what marriage in the next generations will look and feel like with all the old traditional values changing as they are today. Society is so much different than it was even 15 years ago. So, has the ideas and dollar signs of having weddings, diamond rings, sending the little ones to private schools now, pre-kinder and so on.

It so much depends on the people who are marrying and the vision of what it is as a day to day life situation vs. a reality t.v. version of romance, endless sex, and no problems with paying rent, food, job loss and illness, and all the real practical life marriage is.

Marriage, living together, co-habiting with a room mate or mates, is a challenge, negotiation, compromise. Sometimes beauty, sometimes not so.

look at the divorce rate, single parents, and your bound to see society is changing.

I am married, and I have been single, and a single parent. My Mother was married to my Father 44 years, married late in her life she had been single for sometime. When my Father passed away in 2009, she has done all and everything she ever wanted to do and see. When I asked her would she marry or have a "male" friend in her life, she declared "no way." She has been happily widowed for almost 4 years now.

This is an interesting poll
Jade