From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is The Story.
On Saturday, I'm Luke Jones.
The number of people getting married is falling.
It's predicted that by 2050, only three in ten people will be married.
Meanwhile, cohabiting families—so unmarried people in long-term relationships—are now the fastest-growing family type in the UK.
So what is happening?
This week in The Times, feature writer Hannah Betts laid out her argument
for why she is never going to marry her partner of 10 years,
but also why she, like millions of others, is calling for the same rights as married people.
It's a concern too for features writer Simon Mills.
His piece is read by Will Roe.
Why I will never get married, by Hannah Betts.
"Your husband's so wonderful, charming, hot," people are forever informing me.
"He is not my husband," I retort.
"He's the person I'm currently sleeping with."
How they laugh.
Only I'm not joking.
Terence and I may have been together for 11 and a half years, but I will never marry him.
Nor he me.
We are not outliers here.