Well, chacun a so gout, I guess, but 50% of marriages end in divorce with by far the most frequent reason given being cheating. You then have to wonder why marriage and long-term relationships are held in such esteem when they come with a built-in flaw: the expectation of monogamy which is unrealistic. It's like expecting priests to be celibate.
Another issue is a lot of people only view themselves as being socially worthy if they're in a relationship. Seems like they view it as more a personal accomplishment, something they can brag about to their friends, or a marker of self-worth than of a union of two souls or whatever esoteric ideal society views it as being. It's not much different than guys in an internet forum bragging about how many girls they've scored. You're "coolness" or social worth if you've scored a lot goes up in the eyes of your peers. Yay...
Anyway, to me it's a choice between being single and free to shop around versus being constrained by someone else's unrealistic expectations. My 20-something girlfriends and I at least definitely subscribe to being in the former state more than the latter, and I'm sure most girls and guys, and judging by the skyrocketing divorce rates, even the married ones, do as well.
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