Women are still attracted to the institution of marriage even though divorce seem to be lurking in the corner of every marriage proposal. Why are women attracted to this institution even though the divorce rate is above 50% in the United States. One simple answer that each bride thinks as she is saying her I Do's and listening longinly as he says his "I Do" is that it will not happen to her. Women are so caught up with  romancing the stone that they think that the catastophe of divorce can not possibly evade their blissful union with the love of their lives. The love of the bride pledge to honor and to obey her for the rest of his life while busily thinking to how to meet up with his buddies following the ceremony.

Men and women think differently. Women are sure that their union is one made in heaven and the man in the relationship is probably thinking of when is the next football game going to grace his eyes instead of longing for his wife's lips to grace his. Men are not romantic and they never will be. Romance is in the eyes of the beholder and for the most part, these romantic eyes belong to women.

Women are programmed from day one to imagine the frog that she can turn into a prince and ride happily off into the sunset on his white horse. Women are dreamers and  men dream also but for entirely different things. Men may be imagining one of the bridesmaid naked under all of that chiffon while saying his vows and the women is visualizing her doll house with the white picket fence. As long as women live in these fantasy worlds of the latest popular song where she thought that she could be independent until she met "the one" will continue to crave marriage.

Women are strong in their beliefs and really believe that they can change a man to be what she wants him to be. She may be starring in his eyes at the wedding ceremony visuallizing that now she can finally get him to cut his goat tee. The groom may be thinking of the honeymoon and all of the legal and free sex he can get.

As long as women are dreamers and men are dreamers too although of different scenarios, women will continue to crave marriage. Just the idea of having a family of their own is worth some of the things these women know they must endure once they are married. Yet, these brave women take one day at a time and go for it with the hopes that just maybe their relationship will be one of the other 50% that somehow manages to last a lifetime.