With the way our society goes about now it’s tough to say
what marriage will be like over the next fifty years. Nowadays marriage is a
joke with roughly fifty percent of them ending in divorce. I can definitely see
that number escalate with today’s cultural values. These days people go through
relationships like nothing, they are hardly serious. I’m not saying that everyone’s
relationship will be like this but it will be the majority in the next five
decades. I can see the divorce rate going up from about fifty percent to
seventy five percent. Right now being unfaithful in a marriage is common which
leads to divorce most of the time. With our generation there are a lot of
individuals that do not believe in the constitution of marriage and refuse to
get married at all. That can also be a possibility; people will just not get
married at all. But who am I to predict the future of marriage.
Hey Petey!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your post this week, I can definitely agree with a few things that I didn’t even think about. I believe in the next 50 years, more and more couples are going to be rished to settle down and start having children and families. However, what really is the big rush? I totally agree with you also that the divorce rate will end up rising in the next years. It’s people jumping in marriage and then understanding the truth about their spouse and the sacrifices that make a relationship work. I guess we really will see in the end what marriage will be like in 50 years!
I like your firm belief of how the future will turn out. It is true that marriage will end up mostly as a divorce but there are some people who do take it seriously and others who are willing to stay with their partners. Of course, there will be people who will end up getting a divorce no matter what for multiple reasons and whatnot but what you may have guessed can happen and maybe not, it depends on what most of the people decide today. For now, I believe my relationship with my girlfriend will last and ever after we get married because I have my faith in it.
ReplyDeleteHey Petey,
ReplyDeleteI have the same opinion about what marriage would be like in fifty years. It is definitely going downhill, or you could say, uphill in rates of divorced marriages. This generation and other generations to come start to take marriages for granted compared to previous generations who take marriage seriously and make the commitment. They just want to be independent and not be tied down to anyone. I know some friends and family members whose marriages have ended in divorce because someone was unfaithful due to the spark missing in their relationship. It is a pity, but that is the direction our generation and future generations are headed to.
I agree that the divorce rate is likely going to increase in the next fifty years. Given that it is already at fifty percent right now, it jumping to seventy-five percent in the next seventy years doesn’t seem like that much of a stretch. I think that it’s a shame how easily people get married and then divorced these days. I hope that half a century from now people will take marriage more seriously and work at keeping it together but I doubt that will be the case. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how it all turns out.
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