Interesting topic. I agree with Grace and the experts that say that women need to continue to be courted. But I also agree with the what you are implying that this is a relatively new phenomenon. And I think I know where it is rooted.
Baby boomers and older met, fell in love with and married each other. And you stayed together through thick and thin. Marriage vows, deeply rooted in Biblical teachings, were taken seriously. The fact that you spoke these vows in front of God, spouse and family were binding. So when things got rough, the majority of couples toughed it out. Because those vows meant something to both people.
Plus there was a TON of peer pressure to stay in a M no matter how bad things got. Divorce was a dirty word before the 60's. Perceptions changed a lot in the 60's and 70's- women returned to the workforce and divorce became more prominent. Seems like we've shifted from one extreme to the other, we've gone from people not getting divorced under any circumstances (which clearly is unhealthy in some situations) to people getting divorced for basically no reason at all other than they just don't "feel like being married anymore" (which is pretty much what my ex told me). Surely there has got to be a middle ground between those two extremes!
