>>119428>You can get married without a wedding, you know.It's not just the wedding, it's the documentation involved and the mess of exiting when things go badly. In a heavily pro-marriage society, women are also shamed for divorcing instead of "staying to fix things", even if their situation is hell.
>The problem is, you can't know he's a loser until you've spent some time with him, and date him. It's a Catch-22. But you don't marry a guy off the bat, you marry after a long time of dating him. The real killer (sometimes literally) is men who seem to switch personalities the moment they get married.
>Men are afraid of commitment. They lie to get sex, not marriage. Or if they are willing to lie to get marriage, they are much much more willing to lie to get sex.There are men who fear commitment, and there are men who want a woman to keep prisoner for life. Many want to have it both ways, a wife at home and a life chasing women outside marriage, but they pretend to only want one. If women start saying "No sex before marriage", all that's going to happen is men will say "Yes, I will marry you, I'm a trad man babe" (it's even worse if they're "trad", because that comes with some ridiculous norms and stipulations). There will be women who just need to hear those words before their walls start coming down and they become more and more pliant, and the women who hold fast to their word will still get the shit end of the stick when men put on airs to quickly tie potential wives to them, get the sex they want
and a bangmaid. The aspect of waiting for marriage loses its weight if he's wealthy or reckless enough to say "Sure, let's get married within a year because I'm serious about you" or the much more simple poor/lazy man tactic of "That's okay, I'll wait patiently until we can get married (I will cheat on you until our marriage happens)".
>A bf has a 95% chance of dumping you, since he has no obligation whatsoever to stay with you. A husband has a much smaller chance, and if he does, at least he has to pay alimony. Which would you take your chances with?Yes, he'd rather keep the marriage and intimidate and manipulate you so he can enjoy the increased funds/prestige that come with being a husband. Plus, if he's wealthy enough to get a good lawyer, there's a good chance he'll be able to avoid alimony, too. I'm not worried about being dumped, but about getting stuck with someone I'll want to dump and carrying the stain of time spent with that kind of person for life.
>I bet if OP had told her bf, "No sex before marriage", he would have left her immediately, and she wouldn't be in the mess she is in now.He probably would've lied and said he wanted marriage too, then made both internal and external excuses to cheat. After all, men aren't the ones saying "No sex before marriage".