Why this aversion to marriage among the newer generations?
I find people the age of my parents and grandparents believing that marriage is as inevitable a part of life as death. 🤷♀️😅
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Caution is probably a better word than aversion. The world has changed a lot and stability doesn't exist anymore the way it did decades ago. Permanent jobs are rarely offered nowadays and we became more mobile, which affects almost everything in life.
Previous generations mostly spent their whole life in one region, in one house aside from their parental one and having a single job for decades. The current generation is rarely offered a job for more than a few months, almost forcing them to change their entire life every few years. (Moving way further than our grandparents ever did, leaving their social network behind and building a new one, making a new house their home, dealing with an entirely different financial situation, etc.) On top of that, "life long" lasts decades longer now than for previous generations thanks to medical advancements.
I don't think the willingness to commit changed much, but pretty much everything that affects it did. As people hardly know where they themselves will be in two years nowadays, it's only logical to hesitate about making promises about their own life in 50-70 years, let alone about staying with a significant other for that period.
Previous generations mostly spent their whole life in one region, in one house aside from their parental one and having a single job for decades. The current generation is rarely offered a job for more than a few months, almost forcing them to change their entire life every few years. (Moving way further than our grandparents ever did, leaving their social network behind and building a new one, making a new house their home, dealing with an entirely different financial situation, etc.) On top of that, "life long" lasts decades longer now than for previous generations thanks to medical advancements.
I don't think the willingness to commit changed much, but pretty much everything that affects it did. As people hardly know where they themselves will be in two years nowadays, it's only logical to hesitate about making promises about their own life in 50-70 years, let alone about staying with a significant other for that period.