"Twenty and Engaged"

She's 20 and several years younger than I am, but she gets it. Which is more than I can say for many people of both her age and mine. And perhaps many older people.

People got married because “it is not good for man to be alone.”

But now we think it’s better if man is alone. So we tell children to live for themselves as long as they can; to establish their careers before all else; to have self-satisfying flings, and date for the fun of it; and to hold off marriage as long as they can, because life ends on the wedding day. It’s no surprise that when they grow up and marry, they remain alone, with separate careers, separate bank accounts, separate bedrooms, separate friends, separate beliefs — separate hearts.

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