How to Tell Your Partner You Don’t Want to Get Married

  “I do not want to get married.” This is a difficult decision to communicate to your partner. Until just a few decades ago, marriage was seen as a universal goal toward which everyone should be moving and as the only valid destination for those in a relationship. Today, some still want to get married, but more and more people are choosing to forego this formality. There are several reasons why someone might reject the idea of marriage. These could be related to personal ideology, such as a lack of religiosity or the desire to live together outside of institutions,…