[flipp3r]

As an unmarried Young Adult (in the Netherlands) myself I can give my 2 cents about why I wouldn't get married; I've simply taken to heart the advice nearly every senior developer would give me; Don't EVER get married.

[tptacek]

That is very weird advice. I've been a software developer since the mid-1990s, when I was a teenager, got married at 21, had two kids, started several companies, sold some of them, and getting married is easily the single best decision I ever made.

I would like to gingerly suggest that this is a subject for which you might not want to sole-source your advice from software developers. We are an odd lot.

[derefr]

Perhaps software developers in the Netherlands have geographically-clustered attitudes about marriage that more closely resemble those of Dutch adults generally (or maybe Dutch academics or trades-workers specifically), than software developers generally.

[sjg007]

Married men live longer too.

[simplify]

Keep in mind that unhappily married or divorced people are the ones who are more likely to say something about it. I'm happily married. I don't really mention it, and I'm sure others in a similar situation do the same.

[pavlov]

Getting married is fine! Just have a prenuptial agreement. A standard template for your country is probably one Google search away.

[briandear]

Using any legal document from a Google search is incredibly bad advice. That’s like diagnosing disease from reading WebMD.

[sjg007]

Yeah cause you guys have health insurance.. ;)

[TomMarius]

Yeah, basically any senior I worked with said that. And it seems to be working, I'm happy.