Do You Want Cheese with Your Whine,

Amy.

She bitches and moans about marriage and all of the benefits going with it and the social pressure to marry, but she does it anyway. So much for "principles."

The ONLY real advantage to getting married is economic, provided both spouses are working. The standard of living is generally higher, but if one of the spouses should be unemployed, there is still wage income in the household to keep afloat. It is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more difficult economically to remain single.

Not that I am sorry I am, but I have gone through much more difficult times financially because of it. However, I don't care for the lack of privacy tradeoff, etc., that necessarily comes with marriage.

But I am not whining about how society stacks things in marriage's favor, mostly because of society's desire to perpetuate itself through those children produced in most marriages, like dear Amy.