"She married our families together, and that's something that we really wanted that day, " he says.

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In fact, the company claims that 236 people a day in the U.S. are married as a result of meeting through their site.

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The most important aspect of the fifty percent divorce rate on our wedding day is our happy belief that we will be among the half of all married couples who will sustain one another, strengthen one another, and, enliven one another until death cleaves us apart.

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"Girls were not encouraged to participate in sport because there were all these different type of myths: you're not going to be fertile, you're not going to get married one day, you're not going to have the so-called happy ending that would make any mother proud, " Shapinga says.

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That same year, he took his first step toward reversing his destiny: he married the playwright Molly Day Thacher, a blond Vassar graduate who had cast him in one of her plays.

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Later that month, Iceland's prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her partner, writer Jonina Leosdottir, on the day the country's gay marriage law came into force.

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