Which gender (today and during the past centuries) is/tends to be more obsess with marriage? Male or Female?

Please respond to my question with regard to the time period, location, and influence of society.





Please mention your gender in the beginnning of your answer.Which gender (today and during the past centuries) is/tends to be more obsess with marriage? Male or Female?
Females tend to get heavier (obese) with marriage.


1. Women have children and tend to gain weight during pregnancy and keep the weight after birth.





2. Women have ';hooked'; their man/victim so they don't need to keep up the game.





3. Women tend to work less when married. Less activity, more weight gain.





Edit... are you asking about obesity or obsessiveness?





In terms of obsessiveness, women even in the year 2008 still obsess about marriage. Notice how many bridal magazines their are who's target audience are women. Also, notice how jewelers advertise to men about the ';perfect'; diamond for engagement and wedding rings that will please the bride.





Many women still dream of their wedding. Guys dream of the bachelor party.Which gender (today and during the past centuries) is/tends to be more obsess with marriage? Male or Female?
Female.





In eras past, pretty much pre-WWII, people relied on each other far more for basic survival. Crops had to be planted and harvested. Cloth had to be woven and sewn. A symbiotic marriage arrangement was necessary just to survive. Males and females both needed marriage.


Industialization allowed people to become individualists. They could earn a living and survive alone. It had always been a status symbol to have a wife who managed the household - one who didn't have to toil in the fields. Suddenly a lot more people could afford small households and have the ability to support a wife to manage the household. Marriage was equally advantageous to both sexes.


Marriage as a liability is a relatively new phenomenon. Men who earned the money began to think of the wife managing the household as a liability rather than a staus symbol. Women began to think of managing a household as a form of opressed servitude. The concept of marriage as a symbiotic relationship or a status symbol began to fall apart.


With prosperity came greed and selfishness.


I don't think one gender has ever been more obsessed with marriage than the other. The whole concept that one sex benefits more than the other from marriage is a post-WWII concept.
I'm not sure what you mean by obsessed with marriage but women in western societies were probably more concerned about marriage in the 19th and 20th centuries because the economic and social options available were most often limited to marrying and marrying well.





This has changed for most women in the west thankfully but only in the last 30 years or so. I think both men and women are much more individual in their attitudes about marriage.
I think years ago it was men who wanted to marry to give them status, but now i think it would be 80% of women who want to marry now.





In my case i was never going to get married, but i met a lovely guy, he asked me to marry him the first night, i told him i was never getting married i would win the lottery first haha. I was 27 years old.





18 months later we got married, but it was him who wanted to marry and we have been married 9 years this year and together for 11 years, and have 2 beautiful twin daughters.





We have had our ups and downs and have fought loads, but we have worked at it and i wouldn't be without him now.
Theres not much such sociology for past centuries, so that part of the question is unanswerable.


These days, well, consider this: There are many bridal magazines, none for grooms. Ditto for wedding themed TV shows. Weddings are considered today to be ';her day';, which tells you all you need to know about for whom that is all done.


I'm a guy, but the facts are the facts, no matter who writes them.
Neither gender was clinically obese in History. Food was hard to earn and/or come by. Modern appliances and inventions have made our species generally under-exercised and indolent. If Calories in are far greater than Calories expended, you get the present typical North American and Western European. It's not Rocket Science.
Female: Most people seem to think that women are most obsessed with getting married, since women are pressured into it more. In fact, women tend to be happier when they're single. Single men, on the other hand, fare much worse in terms of mental health, physical health, and overall happiness than either single women or married men.
Don't have a good answer over history, but I gave your question a star.





Would like to note that there's a huge difference between ';obsessing'; over marriage and ';obsessing'; over the wedding. Can you say BRIDEZILLA?!?
Female


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