Yeah, I'm not sure if that guy was in love with the pillow itself or the anime girl printed on the pillow, but...whatever.

As for the divorce rate, it's not even that. The reason the divorce rate is so high is because of society's insistence on marriage being the great goal. No relationship is legitimate unless you plan to get married someday, and it's not successful unless you do. Marriage is the point at which you're a REAL ADULT YAY~!

Which is funny, because I always thought being an adult was about independence? Not to say that all married couples are codependent, but in most cases one partner is financially dependent on the other at any given time. But whatever, society says I'm wrong, so YAY SOCIETY!

And because my partner and I are the same gender, we can't see it that way. Even though we can be legally married thanks to a nice little loophole we've got, we still have a hard time seeing marriage as anything more than a legal declaration and a nice party. It doesn't feel like something we HAVE to do in order to be legitimate. We just want to be allowed to visit each other in the hospital if anything happens. We want to be able to share insurance benefits like we share everything else. We want to be able to get each other's death benefits, just have something to soften the blow when the worst time of one of our lives comes.

But a lot of couples, that's not what they're thinking of at all. What they're thinking of is just BEING married for the sake of being married. Not even because they really feel like they could be with their current partner for the rest of their lives, just because they think they should be married to SOMEONE.

So please explain to me again how I'm ruining the sanctity of marriage more than this practice? Or, for that matter, celebrity less-than-a-week marriages?