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18 Science-Backed Reasons to Never Get Married Ever — and What to Do Instead
Should you get married?
Marriage is one of the oldest institutions in the world.
It’s also, along with education, one of the cultural practices that has evolved the less since it was invented.
So I went on an investigation to find out exactly how marriage stood the test of time in the 21st century.
The results I found are clear: marriage yields more pain than it harvests happiness and pleasure.
Find out why below.
1. Humans Are Not Sexually Monogamous
Marriage, most of the time, forbids you to have sex with other people. As such, the first question we should ask is are humans actually monogamous or not?
From a social, biological, and empirical perspective, the answer is a big fat NO.
Experts estimate that between 3% and 5% of all mammals are strictly monogamous. They reproduce with the same partner throughout their lives. If one of the partners dies, the other won’t reproduce at all.
Humans are far from adopting this behavior. We like sex (a lot) and want to have it with different people throughout our life. We like it so much that we “cheat”.
