But our straight friends usually stayed married. Why not us?

但是我们的直人朋友却通常都能维持婚姻，为什么我们不能？

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Sociologists attribute this phenomenon to an increasing number of couples living together but not getting married, and women think it's okay to have children without getting married.

对于此现象，社会学家说，眼下不少情侣同居但不结婚，女性也越来越接受未婚生育。

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And they might get married, or they might not get married, but they don't get to consummate their love.

然后他们可能会结婚，可能不会，但是他们不会完婚圆房的。

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Later they were married. But Joplin was not as successful in love as he was in music.

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And they might get married,or they might not get married, but they don't get to consummate their love.

然后他们可能会结婚，可能不会，但是他们不会完婚圆房的。

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Oprah Winfrey became engaged to Stedman Graham in nineteen ninety-two but they have not married.

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She persuaded the Germans that she was pregnant by Raymond but not married to him (which was untrue).

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Say that same parent is living with, but not married to, another single parent with two children who earns the same amount.

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The challenge, though, was to quickly find a couple who had been introduced by their families, but were not yet married, so we could follow all the excitement leading up to the big day.

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