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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Marriage is a great institution.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.