Today I'm going to be talking about a topic that is not a hot topic.

Marriage is not the hot topic that it used to be.

When my parents were growing up and when their parents were growing up,

marriage was this sort of fundamental part of being a human,

at least based on their stories of their experiences.

You know, it was the norm that you would go to school,

get a job, get married, have kids, grow old, die, that's it, right?

And there's a lot less questioning going on in generations past.

There was a lot more going with the flow, it sounds like.

And recent statistics are showing that people are not getting married anymore.

People are not just going with the flow anymore.

My generation especially and the generation above me,

so millennials in Gen Z, are apparently not loving the idea of getting married.

And I've sort of heard this discourse online

within my generation about marriage being outdated

and marriage being kind of a scam and marriage being a waste of time and marriage

being destined for failure and it's interesting because actually when I was growing up, I kind of agreed.

You know, I was never sure if I was going to get married.

And I actually have divorced parents, which probably played a role in that a little bit,

you know, just experiencing that divorce.

Who knows if that altered my perspective on marriage,

made me not want to get married as a kid.

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