I am 26, single, with no plans of getting married in the near future. One day I would like to be and have a family, but I'm happy with my life right now. I still have things I want to accomplish before I'm committed to someone, and need to make compromises.
Not trying to be selfish, but I'm just not at the point in my life where I want to make these types of compromises. I feel that I will want to when the time is right, and the person is right.
Why do people feel it necessary ask me why I'm not married yet? I'm always nice with my reply, but feel like saying because I'm skipping the first marriage..... =)
Why does our society look at being single as being so negative?
2006-06-17 11:40:18 · 5 answers · asked by gem 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I'm assuming that you are getting these comments from older relatives? Our society is currently in flux and it no longer behooves women to marry young like it once did. Women are more and more often to be the ones to put off getting married because many women see marriage at a young age as a trap into domesticality.
I mean, who really wants to have to hold down a job, do the majority of the household chores, do the majority of the child care, and then have to deal with the husband acting like his wife is really his mother? I mean even the most responsible men don't seem to know how to eat a healthy meal (pizza is NOT a food group!), how to scrub a toilet or wash a load of laundry (or how often such tasks need to be done), or how to write a grocery shopping list or a menu for a weeks worth of meals.
I say, you go girl! Marriage is a raw deal for women. Men definately got the better end of the marriage agreement!
2006-06-17 11:53:24 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Getting married is an innate trait of living organisms as it ensure the propagation of the specie.
Marriage may be looked at from the relative point as that which compels an organism to procreat. But this is a subjective way of looking at it is not limited to he human specie.
Objectively, the societal view point which is exonerated through pycological studies, establishes the fact that procreation outside marriage exposes the progeny to destabilizing environmental factors to the detriment of society at large.
This malady spawns, rapist, murderers,thieves, and other social misfits and malcontents, which carry over.
The ideal unit for propagation of the human specie, is the male and female, forming a shelter or if we like, foundation for the proper acculturation of the new born.
On this premise, society considers negative any person, or persons who desire to remain single firstly as a person who desires the extinction of the specie.
2006-06-17 11:56:40 · answer #2 · answered by odsirighamusamicah26734 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people are part of a herd. I waited till I was 30 to get married after being with my hubby to be for years. I heard the same arguements for years, and I did what made me happy anyway. I broke away from the herd and thought for myself.
Now is the battle over when I will have kids! So the fight never changes, just the things we individuals fight against!
2006-06-17 11:49:59 · answer #3 · answered by jeminiwitch 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tradition
2006-06-17 11:50:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They want to pay the tax on mediocre sex.
2006-06-17 11:48:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋