Steve Pavlina wrote: Quote:
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If I had it to do all over again, knowing what I know now, would I still get married? No, I doubt it. The monogamous marriage model doesn’t feel right to me. I love the idea of long-term committed relationships though, but you don’t need marriage for that.
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A few years ago I realized that my desire to marry was rooted solely in social conditioning. I've never been married.
I now find it difficult to imagine myself ever marrying. It's not that I'm opposed to long-term committed relationships. To me, peer pressure, the permission of the church, and the permission of the state just don't seem material to love.
As a population, women
appear to strongly prefer marriage. I've often wondered about the veracity of that preference. And is the apparent preference for marriage attributable to conditioning or innate essence?