A Man’s Guide To Surviving Marriage In The 21st Century
By Paul Haedo
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Yet the answer to this dilemma is not as simple as one may initially suspect. Yes, compared to times of yore, the institution of marriage has changed drastically, in many ways for the better, but also in many ways for the worse. Nowadays, marriage is not forced upon men or women nearly as much as it once was. The ability to love and date a partner has expanded from the forced courting rituals and exclusively heterosexual pairings of old to the now casual dating and free sexual orientation pairings of today.

For women especially, the liberty of choice is a great thing. No one can argue, unless one views goodness through an exclusively traditionalist lens, that women are not better off today with how the institution of marriage has changed compared to how they were back in the day, before the institution of marriage changed to its current form.

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