why get married?

More and more people are LIVING TOGETHER BEFORE MARRIAGE, which I think is a very, very wise idea. I certainly would have done it if I hadn't had children. I wasn't going to bring a man into our household without showing them through some serious symbolism - a wedding with everyone we loved in attendance - that this was important and permanent. But if I were single, without children, I'd definitely want to live together for at least a year or two before considering marriage.

And in this same vein, may I just say how annoying I find it when people say that it should be harder to get married, and how it's "way too easy to get divorced these days"

Listen up: having been through a divorce, I can assure you that it is costly, painful, takes forever (mine took almost two years), and not "easy" in any sense of the word.