Is marriage overrated?
Why do people get married? You can have partners (girlfriend or boy friend) and kids. You can claim them as dependents on your tax also . Why people still get married knowing divorces are painful and lengthy. Ethnic culture/ religious folks , not interested in your cultural or emotional arguments for marriage.
Free sex for life? Well not really, once a month sex for life, may miss payments on some months.
Marriage is for BREEDING CHILDREN. Sex with the same person for entire rest of life? You'll get really bored after some time even if your wife is a super model. Not to mention people ages.
Someone to grow old with. One of the things that’s been really nice (I’ve been married 15+ years and have been starting to see this) is the “comfy old shoe” feeling you get. If you can trade someone in for a newer model, you’ll never get that. Also—when you’re caring for aging parents, it’s nice to have the ability to tag team. I know few boyfriends and girlfriends who can handle that heavy stuff.
Peer pressure, herd mentality and to fit in the social circle. Plus, marriage is more like a contract which is not easy to break so no matter how much u fight, u have to get back knowing that divorce is pain. In casual bf/gf relationship, one can walk out easily at a later stage leaving the other one left out. All the above could be wrong though. Do it, if u feel like doing it. YOLO.
I think it's just a celebration of a commitment, more or less like the signing of a bill by the president.
People do not go into marriages thinking about divorces. If you truly want to marry someone, you won’t be thinking about how painful and lengthy the divorce will be.
You do know that divorce rate in USA is 40-50%
that rate is misleading for a lot of reasons. for instance for highly educated people it’s way lower. especially if you factor in only “first” marriages as anyone who had already been divorced is much more likely to again. finally, depends on age. so if you have a well educated asian couple that’s 30 and high income and first marriage the divorce rate starts to shrink to almost single digits.
You answered your own question with “Why people still get married knowing divorces are painful and lengthy.” So that separation will be difficult and you will not take that decision in a hurry.
because weddings are awesome. If people stop getting married, there won’t be weddings. And that would suck
Then you aren’t interested in answers!