Is Marriage the End of the Story?

"I grew up also understanding the relationship of marriage being heterosexual and also quite white," she says. "No one ever talked about happily ever after, right? It was everything was like, oh, they love each other." The emphasis is on getting to the point when you're married, but that's so often the end of the story rather than the beginning of the story, he adds. 'It's this portal where you're two people who are just like independently in the world'