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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
If they ARE all valid answers, why is the divorce rate so high, and climbing higher every year?
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Because a lot of people believe that marriage is a requirement for sex.
Or that getting married will make them able to work together as a partnership.
Or because they want some of the legal benefits of marriage, and picked someone they don't get along with in a few years.
Or because they're told they must get married if they have children together. (And marriage will magically create an ability to get along and work out problems.)
Or because their local community will spit on them if they live together and aren't married.
Plenty of reasons to get married that have nothing to do with the ability to *stay* married. And removing the legal obstacles from divorce, and most of the social & financial benefits from marriage, has led to widespread divorce. (Marriage is only a financial advantage for middle-class & above families. For people living in poverty, it's usually an expense; they have to balance the annual tax cost against the legal rights it grants.)