This trend may be attributed to multiple factors, including: A mutual desire to live together. A desire to experience what marriage to ones partner may be like. Financial stress experienced by one or both partners.

Why do not get married?

It may seem like a pessimistic reason for never getting married, but being afraid of a potential divorce, along with the legal, financial and emotional stresses involved when dissolving a marriage, is enough for some to say “I dont.” “Theres a fear of divorce or a specter of divorce looming large in peoples minds,”