[nycgamer]

Well, since we're not sodbusting on the ole plains anymore, why do men and women need to get married? In other words, women don't need men to lead full, productive lives and men don't need women to get along either. It's not like in the old Wild West when it was just too hard to survive alone and we needed to populate the new frontier with as many kids as possible. The human population is getting too overcrowded for this planet anyway and there are already too many kids without even a single parent. Most people are too consumed with looks, money and popularity to care about anyone else and then get married to someone on whom they have projected all their own "ideals" that they've learned from the movies. Then, when things get tough, or the person doesn't turn out to be who they'd hoped, they suddenly realize they don't really love that person for who they are and don't have any real reason to stay with them, hence the high divorce rate. I'm not saying I have an opinion about marriage either way - I'm simply stating one side of the argument to see how other people feel about it. Seems like most people do it for one of four reasons:
a. because they think they 'have to' for the tradition of it, or something is wrong with them if they don't, or there's nothing else to do (a lot of small towns are condusive to this), or they want the security
b. status, or tax purposes (some businessmen don't even like their wives - they just get married to benefit their business in some way)
c. money - a lot of women marry a man because he has the money to give them the lifestyle they dream of
d. love - well, of course there are people out there who get married because they actually love each other enough to want to "seal the deal"

So what are your thoughts on the subject?