"'Generation X' is a term loosely used to denote the post-baby boom generation, as far as demographers are concerned, it covers people born between 1965 and 1976. That span of years corresponds precisely to a doubling of the annual American divorce rate, from 2.5 to 5.0 per 1,000 population."
-- From the article, "Can Generation Xers -- many of them children of divorce-- make their own marriages last?", by Kendall Hamilton and Pat Wingert, July 20, 1998.

"There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance."
-- From "The Passion" by Jeanette Winterson

Cohabiting is most popular among the 24-35 age group -- 1.6 million couples in that demographic are "living in sin."
-- Census Bureau, 1998

Cohabiting couples get it on more than married folks do - unmarried guys have sexual intercourse an average of 7.4 times per month, whereas husbands get it 6.8 times per month
-- Linda Waite, Professor of Sociology and of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

But don't be so smug, wedlock naysayers:

Married couples rated far higher than others when asked if their sex is emotionally and physically satisfying
-- Linda Waite, Professor of Sociology and of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

"This girl was different. This girl made me trust myself man. I was walking around and I was feeling satisfied. Can you imagine that?"
-- Lloyd Dobler in "Say Anything".

"Today's young adults are less involved in sexual activity. The authors of Sex in America (1994) found that the youngest adults report levels of sexual intercourse that are closer to people aged 50 to 59 than to those in their 30s. While that may be due in large part to their being single rather than married, young adults also report lower rates of masturbation."
-- From "The Generation X Difference" by Nicholas Zill and John Robinson, April 1995, American Demographics

"We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much."
-- From "The Passion", by Jeanette Winterson.

"..Gen Xers haven't turned their backs on tradition. In many respects they're more conservative than their parents, more likely to value the stability that marriage can provide, and they are, they say, determined to succeed where their parents have failed."
-- From the article "Can Generation Xers -- many of them children of divorce-- make their own marriages last?", by Kendall Hamilton and Pat Wingert, July 20, 1998.

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. "
- Matt Groening

Gen Xers are the demographic least likely to say that divorce is the right answer in rocky relationships
-- From a 1994 study from University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.

In a sample of 1,479 Canadians aged 25-35, love and companionship, not economics or sex, were chosen as the primary reasons to get married, according to 45% of men and 44% of women
-- Sun Media 1998 national survey on sex and relationships.

"The Cult Of Aloneness: The need for autonomy at all costs, usually at the expense of long-term relationships. Often brought about by overly high expectations of others."
-- "Generation X : Tales for an Accelerated Culture", by Douglas Coupland, p.69.