Marriage

   There is rarely any success in marriage, so what's the point? Marriage is considered successful if it doesn't end in divorce, which accounts for only 35% of marriages today. 35% of marriages are successful, including couples considered swingers, hiding affairs, together for financial reasons, together for their children, and experiencing domestic violence. Of those marriages that don't fall into these categories, how many couples are perfectly happy? How many people haven't sacrificed a part of their lives, their dreams, or themselves to please their partner and to keep their marriage "successful?" Yeah, you might die with someone by your side, but I don't think that's going to make you happy when you didn't live the life you wanted. It's believed (through studies, according to my current psych professor) that older single women are as happy, if not happier than married women. Maybe we should just join rest of the world (except for penguins) and ditch this whole monogamy virtue. It's worth a shot.