You can fiddle about with the legal aspects (I have some sympathy with ending no fault divorce provided divorce does not then become even more of a legal gravy train than it it) but this is primarily a cultural issue. Married or no, any long term relationship is going to be work. I hope its good, enjoyable work, like, don't know, building your own house or something, but just like building a house sometimes you are going to be choosing the curtains and sometimes you are going to be shovelling cement.

We don't exactly have a knuckle down and take it culture any more, do we? We have a culture were "I" am always right, where "I" have the right to be fulfilled, happy, loved, valued, and if I am not, by god, that is the world's fault and not mine, and its the world that had better change because I am just A OK.

The trouble is to paraphrase a bad sales team peptalk, there is no "I" in marriage. (Well, OK, there is, right there between the "r" and the "a", but you know what I mean). I seem to see a lot of people who are barely socialised these days. What they need/think/want comes first. The only reason for the validity of their desires that they need is that they are indeed their desires. (I imagine it must be rather like being an animal, not a human at all.)

I'm not sure these people can even understand the concept of what a marriage is, let alone make it work.

@ BKS, you probably have a point, unless you want kids. BTW there are basically no tax breaks for being married, labour abolished them.