Dear Marriage Proponent

To the Anonymous blog commentor who was too shy to reveal your actual identity:

My blog entries are never intended to speak for everyone...they are my ideas, my opinions, because it is...afterall, a blog. So I didn't mean to over generalize, it's just that I didn't even realize I was factualizing...

With that said and out of the way, I'd like to clear up what I meant by: "the institution of marriage in this day and age is a sham." I realize that ppl may love each other enough to get married, to want that kind of a formal declaration of their love for each other. However, in this day and age, with the divorce rate sky rocketing, and bachelor parties getting out of control, I think that marriage can be seen by many as an imprisonment. I simply wanted to present another way to look at these socially upheld ideas of marriage and love. If marriage is so great, then why do bachelor's parties have to involve strippers and why do ppl go around bemoaning the fact that they'll only get to sleep with one person for the rest of their lives...People jokingly pat each other on the backs at weddings and make jokes about how unfortunate it is that one will be tied down...well am I lacking a sense of humor or do I just not find these jabs funny. Some say it's the rant of a jealous single person...well who really knows.

I think that most of us like the idea of spending the rest of our lives with someone we cherish. It's just that marriage is a lot of outspoken pressure, if two people already feel that way about each other then why does it even matter? For some reason marriage instills a lot of dread in people, and I'm just trying to say maybe all that pressure is unnecessary if we're all programmed to behave that way already. Sure no one is FORCED into marriage, but don't rule out societal pressure. I mean no teenagers are ever FORCED to do drugs...but if everyone else is doing it...