Elizabeth Gilbert, in her book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, lists the losses associated with marriage for women: married women are more likely to suffer from depression, die younger, accumulate less wealth, earn reduced pay, experience more health problems, and thrive less in their careers than those who are unmarried. She then points to the fifty percent divorce rates and asks the question: why is it that we get so consumed with marriage when it doesn't appear to be all that good for us?
