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In reply to the discussion: Why are men choosing not to marry anymore? [View all]Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)I would also ask why it seems there are also less relationships in general between people?
My guess is with the enhanced personal freedom modern society affords us, more people are free to do their own thing and pursue what they want in their life. And that causes people to be less compatible with each other than they would be under the old rigid social systems of the past where everyone was assigned a specific role and had to stick to it. No one buys that anymore so every relationship can come under much more scrutiny for compatibility with an ever increasingly more diverse cast of characters.
If two individuals are already quite different in their tastes and pursuits (and in today's society it is more likely they are) marriage entails a whole nother level of possible compromises people are just unwilling to make because we are so different from each other now.
People's wants out of life are just intersecting less and less and in a lot of cases they are clashing.