Today's Thought on Marriage

Marriage today is viewed differently than any other time because unlike most generations, women are independent and have more options available to them. Although it is different now people still want and find marriage is important at some point in life especially if they want children. It is alive and strong but not as much as it used to be. People now get married at their convenience rather than for financial stability, as the genders became more equal to each other marriage was put off longer. The business marriage has faded away and the marriage for love took its place.

As you get older some people start jumping on he bandwagon of marriage and tries to move you in that direction when they decide to. For some marriage means everything to them. Some men think they have to take care of women and the women will take care of the house and children, but that’s an archaic way of thinking. Most women want to work and contribute to the household, in reality today’s society needs two incomes to keep a comfortable lifestyle most people want and enjoy.

The temporary marriage license being introduced is one other thing this generation is adapting too, but some people are completely against it because of what marriage is supposed to represent a lifetime. Why would someone cut the lifelong commitment short? Divorce rates play a big role in that, it has become a normal thing and everyone knows at least one person who is divorced. The children of divorced parents get it the hardest between custody and their way of living being shattered. The hope of a till death do us part doesn’t happen for most people. It is almost uncommon to have one marriage in your lifetime.

Temporary marriage license may be good because divorce rates will go down, but then it really isn’t a marriage then. People live fast and don’t slow down in life to get to know someone the way they should before marriage which eventually just leads to divorce. On the other hand, there are people who live together unmarried and raise children perfectly happy. Some of those people cannot marry legally though, they may want to be married, but a law restricts them from it.

Today’s way of thinking has become too complicated between all the labels between to people to what people settle for. They are treated a certain way then start to believe that’s the best they will ever be treated and end up unhappy with their life. The slower way of living helped people get to know each other before marriage in the past, while today is fast and more promiscuous life makes it harder for people to settle down. Marriage is important to some, but not until later in life after they have had their partying years and are ready to settle down. Life has changes for the better and for the worse for our generation because of the way of free thinking is allowed now that wasn’t accepted before.