I've been working up to proposing to my girlfriend. I've been reading about the history of marriage in order to get confidence. One thing I think I love about it is that it's culturally universal. How many things can you say that about? Everyone in the world celebrates it.
Well sure we are here to procreate and that takes two and raising a family is a teamwork kind of thing
Right, yeah. But what also blew my mind when reading up about the cultural aspect of marriage is the fact that child marriage, polygamy, and forced marriages still exist in today's day and age. They're all cultural traditions that are celebrated and enforced.