Have You Actually Sat Down and Thought About Why You Want a Romantic Relationship?
I mean, REALLY sat down and thought about it. There’s multiple types of love and companionship, plus ways to split a Costco membership
The Wedding Industrial Complex pushes this messaging onto people from the moment we’re in diapers.
Conservative public policy that emphasizes isolationist nuclear family structure and constantly froths at the mouth about birth rates is also screaming at you from day one to get married.
Women in particular are browbeaten with this idea that your wedding day will be the most important day of your whole life. There’s this interesting duality in that if you’re a woman, you’re told you’re clingy, crazy, and marriage-hungry if you want a relationship and *gasp* DARE want to know where a relationship is going, if not just being happily single. But then the second you say you are happy being single, you’re treated like the antichrist.
We’re pathologized and pitied until we’re eligible for Social Security.
