AIBU to ask why marriage is so easily dismissed as an option?

[HeidiHaughton]

Why do people not want to get married when to all intents and purposes they're behaving like they are?
I can't help but wonder if some of my mother's seemingly old fashioned pieces of advice about marriage have in the long run turned out to be correct, even if I thought she was behind the times when she dished it out.

AnitaB888

No they probably woudn't be included. You'd have to be pretty rich though to have several properties in your own name aside from the marital home. I'm sure it happens but there can't be that many women wealthy enough for this to be an option.