Seems to me that marriage is increasingly being challenged by our ever inflating sense of "how good" life is supposed to be. And we are sold so many stories and images about things supposedly being "easy."

I don't think relationships have really changed much; expectations have, and they have changed towards the unrealistic. Then we compare ourselves to the unrealistic and decide that "life sucks" based on what we're feeling, where two generations ago the exact same situation would generate feelings of "this is a bit challenging."

With people of our grandparents' age, "happiness" was almost a bonus; now it is almost "demanded."

Bright Blessings!