Pearl - June 16, 2026Is Marriage in the UK increasing instead of decreasing？
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, we talk about the importance of getting married, why couples should get married, and whether or not getting married is a good or bad thing for a couple. We also talk about gender roles in marriage and why we shouldn't gender genderize it.
Transcript
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question I have is around marriage do you think that because marriage is kind
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of disappearing in my generation like under 30 I think only 20% of us get
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married which is very different is that the worldwide statistics only because I
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know a lot of young people have turned the tide and they actually really do
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believe in getting married I've been to plenty of young weddings yeah not in
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America I don't know off the top of my head here just in America I was a new
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survey that came out i would agree with you that about 10 20 years ago that was absolutely the
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case but it seems to be resurging well there is um kind of a thought process online saying that
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there's nothing that either gender gets out of marriage do you think that's true do you think
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that's untrue i suppose i i wouldn't gender genderize it for me it's about um uh a couple
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might want that to be their next step in their relationship they want to make that commitment
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to each other, and by going through the marriage ceremony, some believe that they make that