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Marriages have become a joke when men think women are an item they bought from a shop and they can treat them anyhow they like.
Marriage has always been a fucking joke, I didn't think too badly of it when I was younger but of course the more I learned about it the more I began to hate and despise the whole concept, one way or another, it's not about being in a relationship, it's about one person enforcing their will over the other ( That goes for women as well as men ) so no wonder a huge percentage of marriages end badly now.
If there are couple out there that have managed to avoid the shit that goes with marriage then good on them, but I'll be avoiding it like the plague.
Marriage is definitely not a joke, but it has been rounded up in a mushi act by all "eternal love" books and romantic art. What marriage is planned to be is an economic union and to guarantee the rights of each side in the family. If the husband and wife love each other - great, if not - well there can never be a full happiness.
The idea of romantic love in marriage is an extremely recent arrival. Now everyone can have independence if they want it, that's the main reason people go into it.
The concept of my financial future and the very shelter over my head entirely depending on the way someone who is a stranger at present 'feels' about me means I won't ever be going down that particular road.