Or, we could state that the responsibility for making a commitment is both partners responsibility, rather than having to play into the old patriarchal idea that women should be chaste (which never applied to men by the way) so they can ‘catch’ themselves a husband. I especially want us as women to stop seeing dating as a competition — yep, I’m in favor of cancel culture for The Bachelor.

Instead of blaming the lack of marriage on women’s sexual liberation, perhaps we should be teaching young people and older people how to assess what they truly want in life and what type of relationship suits them. Help people heal from dysfunctional relationship patterns they learned in childhood and to just be honest with each other during the dating process.

The problem is not about sex, it’s about expectations. Perhaps only 50% of people actually want to get married, or that could be even less, but some still do it out of cultural and societal pressure.

What if it’s a good thing that every single person isn’t running around trying to be in a relationship because everyone else tells them to?

What if free choice about your status is the new revolution?