Yes.
As I see it it puts the option on the table that either or both could always walk away form the relationship, this then lingers into the marriage.
Love is something we can learn and actually should learn, It grows in adversity and without such true love is often not be attained.
IMHO the marriage contract gives a couple the glue needed to hold together when things get rough and after struggling realize what true commitment and dedication to a fellow soul is really worth. To have one you can and will depend on in all things is a gift only surpassed but our Lords sacrifice and offering of salvation.
That is what marriage can offer.
Plus when you are married and your spouse is getting testy over something, you can always retort “I just can’t get over the fact that you would actually marry someone like me who would do some heinous thing like x.”, “X” being all the usual suspects.
>>>IMHO the marriage contract gives a couple the glue needed to hold together when things get rough and after struggling realize what true commitment and dedication to a fellow soul is really worth. <<<
The state shredded that contract did it not back in the 70s? Between no fault divorce and the family court ordering the man to pay huge sums of money to the woman, did the govt not incentivize women to leave their man when the going gets rough? Instead of glue it seems to be that that marriage is now nothing more than a temporary agreement to stay together for life. Both spouses can choose to remain married, but either can opt out at a moment’s notice. Because it’s often financially ruinous for a man to leave, he may be in the “cheaper to keep her mindset” if things are not to his liking. That is the only “glue” holding a marriage together I can see.