My marriage aged sons say it is because young women who actually “want” to be in a traditional marriage are few and far between. Most want to be able to go out everyday, facebook constantly, shop without having money, sexually loose, and trash men.
But many want the baby without the man... or they want the baby and the man's money, but not he man...
Anyway, the biological imperative to reproduce hasn't been entirely lost.
In watching Mrs WBill's unmarried 30- and 40-something friends .... I'd concur. My opinion? Who would want to marry someone who would treat them like a doormat?
I'd also add that at face value, these women's lives are footloose, fancy-free, and a whole lot of fun. Trips to Europe on a whim, theater and shopping in NYC, a party-hearty lifestyle.
But, when you speak with them beyond some light dinner party chitchat, they're desperately unhappy, and want exactly what Mrs WBill has ... kids, (ahem) a good man, little house with a white picket fence, stability. They're trying to replace that emptiness with bigger and better parties, and failing miserably at it.
Mrs WBill and I do OK, but as anyone who's successfully been married can attest, marriage is a lot of sacrifice, and even more hard work. No trips to Europe. No fabulous dinners out - that disappeared with kids (now, we rate restaurants on whether or not "chicken tenders" are on the menu.....) A wild night this weekend was cookies and hot cocoa, a drive town around looking at local Christmas lights, and WBill Jr. in bed by 8:00. We had a ball, but it wasn't a 3-day bender in NYC.
Being married means saying "yes" to different things, and until these women decide to do that, they'll be bitterly unhappy.
That's my $0.02 psychoanalysis, anyway. Makes me very, very glad that I found a good woman. :-)
Yep. There are traditional women out there, but yeah you'll have to find them in Amish and Mormon communities.