What are the downsides to marriage?

Answer 1

The fights. A great many marriages will eventually fail, and will result in divorce, which is frequently an expensive and emotionally painful experience. Even in the case of marriages that do not end in divorce, it is not unusual that the married couple are not happy together, even if they are not so unhappy that they wish to suffer the ordeal and inconvenience of divorce. Living together for the rest of your life is a huge commitment. People often discover that they have a variety of differences of opinion that they did not know about when they got married, and married couples can argue about literally anything and everything. For any family decision, such as, let us say, the choice of a new couch for the living room, it is always possible for the husband to have a different preference than the wife. Such disagreements may or may not resolve in a friendly manner. And beyond that, many married couples run into the more serious problem of infidelity. People have extramarital affairs, which often destroy marriages.