I've heard the many arguments over things like how a miserable heterosexual couple has the right to get married but not a happy gay couple and etc and really the only way I see to deal with these issues is by redefining what's what. I also dislike how "marriage" has become abit of a joke in our society in that many people treat it just as a scheme to get money from an inevitable divorce
You need to meet a lot of different classes of people to get an understanding of what this is really about. If I had to put a huge blanket statement on it, I would say that less educated people seem to have worse relationships.
When I was a chemistry student, most of the class mates I associated with had somewhat serious relationships. They weren't married or anything like that, but they acted as if they were married (in a good way).
Right now I'm an engineering student, and many of my class mates are in serious relationships, just like the chem students.
In the next hallway over are the electricians. It's a very respectable trade and many of these guys are friendly, but their attitude about relationships is completely different. They obviously like women, but they talk in such a way that I can't ever see them having a woman as a friend. It's obvious they don't see women as being on an equal playing field because I've heard quite a few of them talk about how they want their future wives to stay home and not work.
Lower down are the high school grads and high school dropouts. Many of my friends fit into this category. The relationships in this category are terrible. I wouldn't even call them relationships. It's more like "hey i'm lonely, are you a girl? cool let's date". I bet a lot of people fall into that category of dating someone they don't really care too much about. Gold digger women, horny men, lonely men, lonely women, etc. The combinations are endless.
Luckily I'm not the only person to believe this stereotype. Someone has actually done a study on it!
http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol10/5/10-5.pdf
from study
4.1 Large differentials in divorce risk by education
The results show a general pattern of negative effects of educational attainment on a
couple's annual odds of divorce, net of all other covariates. The divorce risk declines
with a higher level of the husband's educational attainment and with a high level of the
wife's educational attainment. This is in line with the economic-demographic theoretical
predictions, even when the effect of wives' increased economic potential due to higher
education is taken into account.
Simply put: divorce rates are not uniform across all classes. Idiots like Tom Leykis get married and divorced 4 times then go on the radio and joke about how much marriage sucks and how bad their wife was. People then hear these bad stories about "my wife is a bitch" and "my husband is lazy" and pair it with a 50% divorce rate to come to the conclusion that this is just how things work. In reality, the success rate
per marriage might be 50%, but the success rate
per person is much higher. Most people get married and stay married. People like Tom Leykis get divorced over and over again. A lot of people push the LOL MARRIAGE stereotype even though it doesn't apply to them or anyone else they know.
Anyway, back on topic. Hurrrrrrr them gays are going to hate being married. Tom Leykis said marriage sucks!