The Future of Love and Marriage
SYNOPSIS:
Because patterns of
love and marriage are cultural creations,
we should expect them to change from century
to century.
At the beginning of the 21st
century,
some trends can be foreseen for the Western world:
1. The mythology of romantic love will continue
to hold sway,
at least over the young and inexperienced.
2. More couples will decide to live together
without getting officially or legally married.
They will be free to create their own relationship
contracts
---whether explicit or implicit, written or unwritten.
3. Renewable marriages will become more common.
These are relationships agreed to last for a
certain duration,
after which they will either expire or be renewed.
4. Same-sex marriages will become more common
and less controversial.
Gay and lesbian couples will feel ever more free
to make their relationships open and public.
5. For those people who have transcended the threat
of jealousy,
loving more than one person at the same time
will become more common.
OUTLINE:
1. ROMANTIC LOVE.
2. MARRIAGE RESISTERS.
3. RENEWABLE MARRIAGE.
4. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
5. POLYAMORY.
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