“Do millennials even believe in God these days?”
I respect your views about the importance of God in marriage. Maybe we need a concerted effort to get back to that.
But as any divorced man can tell you, modern marriage, at its core, is merely a financial and legal arrangement between 2 people and their government, with a variety of tax and personal finance implications.
I have asked several women if they would be interested in church marriage - without signing the legal papers - and they all scoffed.
I have attended plenty of church weddings where the couple swore to God that they would stay married for the rest of their lives. Now they’re divorced. So they lied to God. They don’t see anything wrong with it, it’s just a play they were in once.
For today’s women, modern marriage is about money, status, and lots of fun wedding photos for their instagram.
I have to defer to your statement. I married a real Christian Latina conservative so the rules were completely different. Had plenty of encounters with American leftist women who played to what you describe. Made my escape as quickly as possible.
Bingo! For the modern woman, marriage is "forever" until "I get bored, want nicer things, find a "better" man, etc"