Personally, I married pretty late. I was 17 years older than my parents when I married.

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgM
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    The stats by education level are surprising given the increasing difficulty of survival on a single income without roommates. I’m left to gather that marriage as an institution is losing popularity, with informal (to the government) long-term partnerships conferring sufficient desired benefits.

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      1 year ago

      It says in the article that couples forgoing marriage account for a some of this, but it’s mostly people remaining single.

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgM
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        1 year ago

        If one defines “single” as “lives alone/with platonic roommates,” sure. I’ve been with my partner for three years and live alone because of geography, but I would not consider myself single.

  • TheOtherJake@beehaw.org
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    Almost past the 4 oh, and consider the institution of marriage in a legal sense, an outdated scam of misogynistic patriarchal nonsense. I know there are a broad spectrum of roles, not just CIS, and it has to do with inheritance/benefits/property/etc. Don’t catfish my stereotype that has obvious exceptions. All I’m saying is that I feel like the system has a misogynistic patriarchal asymmetrical prejudice built in. I am not interested in the type of asymmetric role I was raised to accept in a religious extremest culture. In my personal situation, this would be a disadvantage, but still, I have no interest in an asymmetric relationship of any kind. IMO, marriage is like a will that is only useful in old age.

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    My parents married at 18/25 and are married still, 46 years later, and still love each other and stuff. I’m in my 40’s with a kid, never married and can’t see myself ever getting married.