I welcome you to my blog. We once lived in a world where marriage and commitment to relationships were a thing, a world where getting married and staying married was a goal and everyone worked round the clock to make sure that the goal was achieved. In that world we had more happy homes; we had partners living together with their kids and raising them in the best way that they could; we had fewer divorce cases, and in that world we had people look forward to marriage and getting into committed relationships, but today that world is no more. The era where people looked forward to committed relationships and marriages is no more.
Today we have a world where young people don't even want to talk about marriage and try to avoid commitment with every fiber in them. Today, talking about marriage to young people and they start feeling like they are being pressured or forced to do something they don't want to do. 9 out of every 10 young persons you see barely thinks about marriage or committed relationships; today's young people see commitment and marriage as a form of slavery, as marriage requires them to stop certain things they don't want to stop. For that reason, they go in search of alternatives.
Young people these days have so many excuses as to why they don't want to marry or be in committed relationships, from having trust issues to blaming the country and world's economy to wanting to be free and have the liberty to do whatever they want. The excuses are too numerous to mention, but all of that points to one thing: young people these days are avoiding commitments and will come up with excuses just to back it up. The same people who claim the economy is bad and cannot carry the responsibility of marriage are cohabiting and living like husband and wife in the same house; there is little to no difference.
The new shift in intentional relationships has affected the environment where children are raised these days; many kids grow up believing that cohabiting for years without marriage is the right thing to do because their neighbors are doing it. The shift in intentional relationships and the lack of commitment have brought about more broken homes because of conditions and the standard young people set and expect their partners to meet. The new shift is something that was frowned on before, but today it is seen as normal and allowed to happen like it's nothing. Zero commitment and many kids are growing to follow same path, in the nearest future we will have a world where marriage is not even a thing, just cohabit and when tired everybody goes their way.
