The single woman in me cringes [View all]

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a42588/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/

This article touches on why I am aloof on the same sex marriage issue. (Aloof? Distant? Not a passionate advocate? The right word eludes me. Marriage? Really?)

The paragraph that begins "The single woman in me cringes" sums up well how I feel about same sex marriage.

The single lady in me cringes – am I really without nobility and dignity, living a life inferior to my married peers, absent profound hopes and aspirations? Does Kennedy really believe that a life without marriage is by definition less transcendent, dignified, and hopeful than a life legally bound to another? And while Kennedy gave a nod to the profound ways in which marriage has changed to acknowledge and adapt to women's increasing social equality, what does the Court's embrace of the most traditional of traditional institutions – an institution that for most of human history, and still in much of the world, renders women second-class dependents, folded into a male authority figure – offer those of us who seek to create our own ways of living and loving?

I am a liberal, a happy unmarried female, and the embrace of a deeply conservative institution is what has me wobbly.