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Baby Boomers and Their Astounding Ability to Remarry
As the sexual revolution of the fifties, sixties and seventies exploded many of the principals and traditions of marriage, baby boomers found themselves leading a crusade against convention. The standards of our grandmothers, who ‘saved themselves for one man’ were replaced by independent views that ran riot over the usual perimeters that bound social behavior and general public expectation of how to behave and with whom.
Despite this, baby boomers have still managed to uphold, albeit loosely, the sacriment of marriage, although it should not surprise anyone that they have done so on their own terms. Young couples tend to live together outside marriage, sometimes for many years and produce several children in their ‘common law’ state before finally deciding to get hitched.
So why do they bother? Couples who have enjoyed an intimate relationship for so long they are better acquainted than many married couples might suddenly make a decision to lurch down the aisle in a lavish ceremony, inviting family and friends to a flamboyant exhibition of devotion, their children heavily involved in the service and the whole debacle costing thousands of dollars they can sometimes ill afford. Why?
The answer is ‘security’. Women might be independent and self confident yet they still feel they require the piece of paper and the requisite vows of everlasting devotion before they feel truly cherished and those baby boomers who do not believe in the fairy tale are swiftly dismissed as cynical and out of touch with reality, despite the soaring divorce rate.
Interestingly, marriage has undergone a subtle metamorphosis in recent decades. The longevity of marriage has definitely suffered and in the 21st Century, most couple profess to wanting to stay together forever ‘if possible’ rather than ‘no matter what!’ This casual attitude to ‘until death separates us’ has led to many baby boomers entering into the state of marriage not one or twice but on several occasions throughout their lives, leaving the local church bridal carpet in many home towns downright threadbare and wedding albums featuring a veritable montage of photographs of spouses through the ages!
Baby boomers, true to type, have put their own interpretation on what constitutes eternal devotion and left the World with a more comfortable ‘boomer-esque’ version of the ritual. Boomers threw the ‘obey’ part of ‘love and honor…’ out the window as soon as they could get away with it and left in the marriage service only those vows they felt were reasonable and manageable. ‘Obeying’ one’s husband was just not boomer-like and it had to go: lifetime affection should be enough, so boomer ladies thought, without bringing all that servile nonsense into it!
Psychological articles teach us that people who enter into multiple marriages enjoy the security that marriage affords; the satisfaction of tying up the loose ends; the gallant protection of the male; the united front; and lastly but least favorite with lady boomers – ‘making an honest woman of the little lady!’
As boomers remarry at the rate of knots and divorce just as quickly before going on to the next romantic adventure, psychological articles are yet to observe the long term effects on society as a whole.
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