Sometimes it feels like everyone on my Instagram feed is getting engaged, getting married or celebrating a wedding anniversary. And I'm guessing I'm not the only one in my generation who sees it.

Personally, I feel indifferent toward the idea of getting married myself. I find the thought of a life partner compelling, but not necessary. I’m not firmly against it – I can see myself getting married at a courthouse or a Las Vegas chapel – but if it doesn’t happen, that’s OK.

This nonchalance is infuriating to conservatives. Institute for Family Studies fellows Brad Wilcox and Grant Bailey wrote that over the past 50 years, liberals “have led the cultural charge to devalue, deny, and discount the institution of marriage.”

But if liberals really detest marriage the way we’re said to, why do I know so many people getting married? Sure, they may have waited a few years, but they’re getting married nonetheless.

I was curious about this discrepancy, so I put a callout on my Instagram story asking people to share their opinions on marriage and weddings – what they love, what they hate, why they want to get married or why they don't.

It turns out people have very strong opinions on tying the knot, even if I do not.

But while the feelings toward weddings and marriage varied drastically, I was surprised by how many of my liberal peers felt strongly about their desire to get married. At least based on anecdotal evidence, it seems like the Republican moral panic about the lack of marriage doesn’t show the full picture.

A lot of people I spoke with, even those who weren’t partnered, still wanted to get married. These aren't pundits or topic experts. These are regular people trying to figure out what they want out of life. Just like me.

Women were given the right to choose. We don't all choose the same.

At 28, I’m at the age where, on average, women in the United States are entering their first marriages. I lived in the South for most of my life, a place where........

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