In Egypt, for example, the norm is people live in the family home until they're ready to move out and start their own family home. So marriage is quite an important step🪜

Also, the fact that extramarital (→by which I mean without marriage= premarital, not adultery) relations are frowned upon means you normally would marry a person once you feel you want to be together, since there isn't an option to simply live together otherwise 🤷🏻

There are other reasons, but those were just the first to cross my mind as I wondered if marriage still meant anything in the US.

Why would anyone get married in your culture if they could simply just live together, have kids, start a family no questions asked?


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