I was thinking about the same on the way home... What's destroying the institution of marriage? The number of people that don't respect it and respect their partners. It's way too easy for a couple to get hitched, and most of those start a long downward slide into divorce. Add to that (usually) poor communication skills, money & substance problems, ego, etc, and it's not hard to see why they fall apart. The "institution of marriage" becomes trivialized in their minds, and, well....