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What Are You Willing To Do To Find Love?
There has never been a time in history when love has been harder to find than today. In previous generations specifically prior to the 1980’s, 85% of the population was married. This is not the case today.
According to Pew Research Center, millennials are much less likely to be living with a family of their own than previous generations when they were the same age. As the population of single adults increases worldwide, countries are battling the ideals of the romance era and modern entertainment against the reality of future population decline.
Adult men and women are not meeting cute or marrying late, they aren’t marrying at all.
Back Then There Was Help
Gone are the days of the strategic marriage, a practice developed in Britain’s early tribal groups who arranged marriages as a strategic tool to ensure their inheritance of, and continued dominance over, land, wealth and status. As early as 2350 B.C. The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man occurred in Mesopotamia.
Our ancestors truly believed it took a village to make a marriage but modern day villages have all but disappeared, leaving the average single fending for themselves when it comes to finding love.