Generation Y on Love, Marriage and De Factos
November 5th 2008 08:41
Last night saw me researching from the couch, that is, I caught a program about young people's attitudes towards marriage vs. De Facto relationships and I decided to poach the findings.
My absolute favourite quote from one De Facto couple was "We don't need to tie the knot; the threads of our life have woven together quite nicely". Sensational, this quote actually encompasses Gen Y's attitude towards the whole relationship thing.
For us, marriage is more of a traditional thing and has less value now than it used to. Some of us see marriage as a religious institution and seeing as we're Generation Declining Faith, some among our ranks have said "Well, I'm not religious, so what's the point?”
Others are of the opinion that "[they] don't need a piece of paper to prove they love someone." Meaning, they can have all the love, happiness and compromise in the world without that hollow shell of a ceremony we've come to know as marriage.
It seems that more and more of us view marriage as something we might like to do rather than something we have to do. De Facto relationships allow us to exercise a 'try before you buy' mentality which we think is rather handy seeing as a return of purchase (sometimes called a divorce) can be quite costly. Furthermore, those of us that do plan to go ahead with our spousal acquirement will do so only if we're 100% sure of what we want. No um-ing or uh-ing or "yeah that one will do" for us, if we get one person to be with 'til heart disease do us part, we want to be damn happy with our investment.
Oh and incidentally, did you know married men live longer than unmarried men but married women live shorter than unmarried women? Hmmmmm.
My absolute favourite quote from one De Facto couple was "We don't need to tie the knot; the threads of our life have woven together quite nicely". Sensational, this quote actually encompasses Gen Y's attitude towards the whole relationship thing.
For us, marriage is more of a traditional thing and has less value now than it used to. Some of us see marriage as a religious institution and seeing as we're Generation Declining Faith, some among our ranks have said "Well, I'm not religious, so what's the point?”
Others are of the opinion that "[they] don't need a piece of paper to prove they love someone." Meaning, they can have all the love, happiness and compromise in the world without that hollow shell of a ceremony we've come to know as marriage.
It seems that more and more of us view marriage as something we might like to do rather than something we have to do. De Facto relationships allow us to exercise a 'try before you buy' mentality which we think is rather handy seeing as a return of purchase (sometimes called a divorce) can be quite costly. Furthermore, those of us that do plan to go ahead with our spousal acquirement will do so only if we're 100% sure of what we want. No um-ing or uh-ing or "yeah that one will do" for us, if we get one person to be with 'til heart disease do us part, we want to be damn happy with our investment.
Oh and incidentally, did you know married men live longer than unmarried men but married women live shorter than unmarried women? Hmmmmm.
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