The Reasons Women/Men Refuse To Get Married

People's perception of marriage has changed continuously with time. Earlier people didn't have much a say in who they're going to marry or when they're going to get married or at what age they're going to get married. Everything was decided by the elders of the house. Whatever they decided was to be done, no questions asked. It was believed that only your elders are capable enough to find you a suitable partner and decided when you're ready to get married. Raising questions and rejection from the side of person getting married was considered a sign of disrespect and was frowned upon. So not many people were brave enough to go against their family. Whereas, the scenario today is totally different. The kind of pressure people used to feel earlier is not there anymore. That heavy weight has been lifted from their shoulders now. Now people have the say in who and when they're going to get married. It's about what that individual want. It's about their choice. Their choice of when they want to marry, their choice of who they want to marry.

With the change of time, people's beliefs have changed and taken a turn for good. With the change of time our society has become more liberal. The boundaries have been stretched a lot. The mentality of the people have changed. They're more acceptable now. In earlier times, the gender roles were fixed. Men were supposed to work and women were supposed to get married and stay at home and be a housewife, look after her husband, their children, their house. That's what their rols was restricted to. And if they failed to do that, they failed at life. There ultimate destiny was to get married and stay at home, they never believed otherwise and accepted this fact and used to feel happy about this. They found meaning in all of this. Women today have realised that they're capable of more than that and can achieve so much more in thier lives. But the change mentality is not the only reason for people refusing to get married.

One other reason is education. People have realised the importance of education in life, the literacy rate has seen a hugh raise. More and more people are becoming educated now in contraction to earlier times when education was not given the attention that it needs. Now that more and more people have become well read, have become more and more educated their priorities have also changed. Their priorities have changed from taking care of their families to taking care of their careers. People have become more focused towards their careers rather than getting married and starting a family. People now, have this thriving need to flourish their already there skills and exploring new ones. People now, are focusing on making themselves better and better with each passing day. Parents today have shifted their focus from getting their children married to their careers and bettering theirs skills and making them attend number of classes because of the rising competition. Even the uneducated people know that marriage is not the only thing that they're capable of. There are skills that do not require education can people that did not have enough resources to educate themselves know that it doesn't end for them there and that they have skills that not require science, maths or economics. New responsibilities, commitment, compromise few of the many things a marriage is about. Today's generation is not up for those kind of responsibilities, such as the responsibility of a child, they're not up for that kind of commitment of being with one person for the rest of their lives, they're not up for the kind of compromise a marriage demands. .

In the course of my essay, I've mentioned many reasons why men and women refuse to get married. Reasons mentioned included changing mentality with changing time, change in the society and how people have now become more liberal, importance of education, change in priorities and how people are not ready to take new responsibilities or compromise or commit to one person.