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Originally Posted by divine1966
Most certainly marriage as an institution is not perfect. And luckily in the modern world being married isn't a requirement. Ton of people live with their partners and don't marry or remain single. It's all personal preference in the western world.
Saying all that, in my observation and experience the only people who complain about insititution of marriage or insist that society pressures them, are in two categories. One is unhappily married people who are afraid to leave or dependent on their spouse and can't leave. Second are people who have hard time finding a partner or good partner or partner who wants to commit.
I know many happily married people or in good relationships and they don't think marriage is a sham. Those who don't have that or aren't even married believe (or say that they do) that marriage is a sham. It's kind of ironic.
Something tells me that if opponents of marriage met someone really great today and were proposed to, they'd get married tomorrow. All this "society pressuring them or marriage is a sham" wouldn't matter as much.
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So if marriage is not perfect as you state, the only people complaining about it are these people you lumped into 2 nice neat categories.
Everyone else must be happy. ? Who's privy to that information found behind very closed doors.
Yes I know many many couples that are the picture perfect advertisement for marriage. Don't we all? But I don't know the shadow side of these couples; only they do.
And if everyone met "someone really great today" well we'd be closer to contentment. This style of pedestrian thinking I have issues with. It gives this egocentric tone that, it works for the majority, get on board. Stop complaining & be the proverbial lemming.