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You’re not the only one spending fewer summer weekends watching other people get married—but don’t worry, the weddings you’re still invited to might feel a little more special these days.
Fewer Americans are getting married, and the ones who still are have scaled back their weddings. Their nuptials are becoming smaller, though not necessarily cheaper, affairs.
Many couples are waiting longer and longer to schedule their weddings. In 2015, the median first-time American bride was almost 28 years old and the median groom almost 30, according to the most recent data available from the Census Bureau. (Ten years earlier, the typical bride was 25.5, the typical groom 27.)
The U.S. marriage rate—the number of new marriages per 1,000 people—has been falling for decades. It fell especially fast during the recession, in 2008 and 2009, but there’s little evidence that people started getting married again even as the economy recovered. And research firm IbisWorld predicts the marriage rate will keep falling over the next five years.
From a global perspective, that wouldn’t be a surprise. The U.S. marriage rate would need to fall by about a third to reach the marriage rates in other developed countries. The most recent data show a U.S. marriage rate of 6.9, compared with an average rate of 4.6 for countries in the European Union.
Are weaker economics the cause, or has marriage gone out of fashion?
(Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Monday July 31 2017, @03:52AM (3 children)
Yeah, I hate that behavior where people make shit up, assign it to other people, then argue against it. It's called talking to yourself, while thinking another real person is saying it. We normal people call it not taking your pills. Time to take those pills buddy.
-AC says he doesn't like hanging out with people and prefers to be alone. Alone of course in this world still means spending 50 hour hanging out with people at work. The voice in you head translates that to "he's shunned by family and friends because of his inadequate behavior. Time to take those pills buddy.
Well, I'm wrong on a part of that. He did say women who spend their life organizing social events shun him. You suggest a way to reverse that, so he gets to spend more time with women who spend their life organizing social events. You're not schizo. You're just a complete loser, who has bland loser empty friends, have done nothing in your life I would consider "living," and when you're gone your shitstain loser life will be flushed down by people like me on the double-folder tp square. I used to stuff tan dockers-wearing 34 is the new 32 average-IQ morons into lockers in highschool. You're worse than the bullies and the geeky ugly nerds. You are a cardboard box.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday July 31 2017, @11:09AM (2 children)
AC only said that he/she has no friends, family, and has been banned from every social group — not that it was because AC wants to be isolated.
There's a big gap between being so extremely introverted that one turns down social opportunities, and being so disliked that everyone else wants nothing to do with you.
(Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday August 02 2017, @08:36AM
Goddamn retards on here.
>AC only said that he/she has no friends, family
my point exactly
> and has been banned from every social group
those voices making shit up again. do show us where this was said outside of your head that needs its pills.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @08:47AM
I'm guessing everyone == people who are in social groups. Strange news to me, since while I was in a "social group" in highschool, I've grown up. Reddit is the site you want.
Most adults who are not bland soccer mom suburbarats are not in a "social group" you stupid stupid kid. I know you've discovered this site, but it is not for you. There's a subreddit out there somewhere that will welcome you with unshowered arms and clearasil-covered faces like yours. This site is for people who were like that around '97, and have since grown up and left crapdot for more adult conversation. Let's call it a "social group" of people not like you. Fuck off ya dumb kid.
As far as the OP - that's the point he was making. Adults who are in "social groups" are uninteresting retards. Those are usually the people who are all about weddings, place cards, and wedding planning. Who the fuck wants to be forced to socialize with that greasy tasteless human version of the Denny's menu.
Time for homework Dimmy. Your mom's driving you to soccer practice and then she's got her friend's daugher's wedding planning session. You know, the two hours of white wine and flipping through sample books that she's been doing on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the last two months.