On this topic, I have a close friend who's almost certainly proposing within a year. His girlfriend is possessive, gets jealous easily, treats him badly in public, has a desire to get pregnant yesterday, and is a crashing bore to boot. All you need to know about the relationship is he says "...but we love each other" as a way of justifying whatever problems there are.
I'll almost certainly be giving the toast at that wedding.
Jesus. Good luck with that.
I also have close friends whose women have taken their balls away from them and will likely wind up getting married to said females. Yet, if either were to break up with his partner at this very moment they'd definitely be emotional wrecks. I guess the desire to be in a relationship is strong enough to blind these guys from seeing the true nature of the demonesses they're dating. The amount of deception and manipulation that goes on seems insane to me, but they all consider it normal. These guys have certain character issues that makes them the pushovers they are, though. Me, I'm far too selfish to go down like that.
Cloudwalking: All the best! Don't become the maneater whores my friends will end up marrying!
Edit: Also, marrying for love > marrying for security. SO many girls mistake security/luxury for love, then they find out they married pigs and when it comes time to leave they can't because they don't want to lose their kids and material possessions. Sad, really.
On statistics:
Judging by what I'm observing among my circle of peers, a lot of people rush into marriage just so they don't feel as if they've fallen behind. It's as if once a girl hits her mid-twenties and begins to physically expire, they start going for basically any decent guy that'll settle down with them. I find that females in particular can't stand being left out of marriage/house/baby/kids chat, and from my observations, wind up basing their decisions and goals on what their peers are all doing. Does this sound as fucked up to you as it does to me? It feels like such a sterile approach to life. When I listen to my female friends talk it really sounds like a competition over who's progressing the quickest in life, and I sense the hate in passive-aggressive commentary from more envious members of the conversation.
Based on this, I believe a minute few marry for love while the others are in a sort of rat race just to maintain some guise of social normality. That's why when people spout divorce statistics I don't pay them any mind; a mind-boggling number of people marry for the wrong reasons, and I can see it happening! End rant.
