Relationship “Norms” That Would Seem Nuts To Past Generations
Taking a near decade to get married
We’ll date, date, and date, seemingly into eternity. It’s perfectly normal for people to date for eight years before getting married, or to have kids before getting married, or to never get married at all—and still have kids. To generations past, if you were dating, unmarried, for years, that wasn’t a relationship: that was just an affair.