“The share of adults who have lived with a romantic partner is now higher than the share who have ever been married;”
I can’t believe women buy into this. In a noncommittal relationship, they always seem to get the bad end of the deal if it fails, e.g. one maybe two kiddos to take care of.
the govt will be father to their kids....
I remember years ago a man I was dating told me that he was buying a house, and he thought it would be great if we moved in together.
I looked at him, and said Why?
He thought I would like to move into a bigger place...with him.
I told him no, I had no reason to move.
He showed up with a proposal and appropriate accoutrements a few days later.
I am not sure it would fly anymore.
Part of it is also that men don’t want to commit anymore either. Many young men today view marriage as risky due to the high rates of divorce and what’s at stake financially. A lot of them grew up watching their own parents go through an ugly divorce. That stuff trickles down.
A lot of women these days are also delaying because they are waiting for one reason or another. Parents today seem to encourage their daughters to not get married early and instead go to school and establish their careers first. Since many millennials are having difficulty launching their careers these days, that’s causing the delay also.
Woman will always get the raw end.....Why buy the cow sort of thing.
Even without children (she probably had abortions because he didn’t want any “honey I don’t want to share you”) its the woman who had to give up her affordable apartment to move in with the man in his bigger and more expensive one so that when he kicks her out, finds another girlfriend she is the one without a home the one who has to move...
and she probably bought furniture etc to improve his apartment, paid half the rent, food, entertainment, internet, cable TV utilities etc...(like a regular roommate but with “marital privileges” for him)
if she didn’t make enough to put something aside she wont have enough money up front to start again in her own apartment...(these things can happen suddenly one day he loves her the next he loves another girl)
but Hey !!! she was in love...its all good while it lasts and it was forever...in her mind...