Senior citizens: Is it true relationships with the opposite sex don't work out in your 20's? If so why?

[Expertrat390]

Matrimony is a practical arrangement. Usually a business deal. Frequently focused on providing for offspring. It hardly ever has much to do with "romance."

Young people are more likely than older people to be misled by feelings of "love," etc., and to make impractical choices as a result. They generally do not understand that it is part of ordinary human nature to get fed up with lovers after a period of anywhere between a few weeks to a couple of years.

If they get fed up with their spouse before kids arrive, they can easily cash in their chips and walk away. No harm, no fault.

But if the woman has already succeeded in spawning the little rug rats (it's almost always the woman who wants them most), then the partners are usually shackled together like convicts for fifteen or twenty years, until the rug rats are old enough to join the army or become slave laborers at the local fast food joint or the local car wash--at which point many parents are reminded of how much they have always detested each other, and the divorce rate then goes up again.



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