There is another way, a better way to approach marriage, at least according to Liv Tyler
Marry me. Photo: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images When people ask me if I ever plan on getting married, I basically just black out. Marriage — only in the sense of the word that means a mutually supportive and loving long-term partnership with a person you really like to be around — sounds fine, but the barrier to entry feels prohibitively high.
Tyler, 42, has been engaged for nearly four years now. She who knows all too well just how exhausting weddings can be has a useful hack: Stay engaged as long as humanly possible. “I love being engaged, but I don’t really have a desire to get married,” Tyler recently told Tatler, a British fashion magazine. “I always felt like marriage should be more of a reward … for surviving your relationship … I feel everyone’s got it backwards.”
Tyler seems more focused on the life-as-married-people aspect of the arrangement, but still, it boils down to what the Cut’s Kelly Conaboy described as living a “permanent Christmas Eve” and what I will call nuptial edging: You exist always in avid anticipation while nimbly avoiding the anxiety mines — a pricey party, the average cost of which approaches the median household income where I live; the social calculus of crafting an attendance list; the bargaining between a partner who wants to...
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