Oomis: Personally, I love playing house with more expensive toys. What’s wrong with getting married and enjoying it?
Girls vary in domestic ability. So long as they have the minimal skills to cook supper and clean the house, and plenty of girls learn on the job, I don’t think that should limit when they get married.”
You missed my point. Of COURSE marriage should be fun (among other things). But too many kids are getting married, who don’t get that marriage is also WORK, responsibility, and not a toy you can put away when you are bored. And worse, there are so many young people who still think their parents are responsible for their happiness and financial security. With an attitude of entitlement like that, they are simply not mature enough to be married. They are just playing with more grownup toys.
Being able to cook is NOT one of the essentials to being ready to get married. As you pointed out many couples (I include the men, especially if the women are outside in the workforce to support their husbands while they are learning) learn on the job how to cook and clean.
IMO, one of the reasons the divorce rate during the first year of marriage is so high, is because the young couple, who often barely know each other, much less know each other well, are PLAYING at being married, and don’t really yet understand what marriage means.