Since my midweek post was celebrating the single status, I thought I would continue with the marriage bashing and maintain a sort of theme for the week 
When the notion of marriage was first introduced to humanity, the average person lived to the age of 17 (married at 13, dead by 17, why wouldn’t the first five years be great!?) Factor in long labouring work days, wars, plagues, natural disasters, really these people didn’t have to spend a lot of time with each other in life or death.
Marriage, at this time, was a necessity for women, and a practical arrangement. Women had to be married or else they would have nothing. This was the law. Women had no rights, no say, their lives were completely controlled by the men in their lives from fathers, to brothers, to distant cousins, to husbands. Marriage was less about finding a soul mate and more about making sure you had someone to take care of you once your parents died.
Fast forward to the 1970′s and the height of Women’s Lib. Women first had their sexual awakening in the 1960s and then their Liberation in the 1970s only the joke was on them because 20 years of celebrating a new and improved lifestyle was not going to erase 1,970 years of traditional thought.
So we plug through into the late 20th century and women are trapped by this idea that they MUST have it all. The husband, the kids, the high-end job, the house on the hill, the fancy cars, the designer clothes; and that if any one of those areas were failing, then they themselves were failing as well.
Well, watching these women exhausted the girls coming up after them into the 21st century. Now we have a generation of girls who just want to get married and have babies and have their men take care of them so that somebody will once their parents die.
Now, marriage is really something to try on, like a new pair of shoes. Walk around for a bit, see how it feels, how good it looks on you, and then if it’s not your thing, you get out of it, go to the next store and try on a new pair. Maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be?
The average life expectancy for a person now is 84 meaning, if you get married at 25, or even 35 that’s almost 60-50 years of marriage. That’s an insanely long amount of time to be spending with one person and definitely gives new meaning to the vow “till death do us part”.
