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May our different God's help us! Is there no tenacity in society any more. The trouble with your hypothesis Michael, is it treats marriage simply as another commodity to be exchanged, traded in, disposed of or otherwise discarded when a newer model appears on the market or boredom with the existing one sets in; rather like a car or a mobile telephone.
We already live in an unsustainable and extravagant disposable society; you appear to suggest that marriage, where two people commit themselves to each other in law, and sometimes in faith too, should mean no more than any other commercial contract.
It certainly appears that that is how marriage is viewed by the vacuous celebrity society but if the world of real people is to adopt that model, then the legal marriage ceremony should carry a health warning/disclaimer clause such as: "If you displease me or in any way do not come up to my expectations, whether reasonable or otherwise, you will no longer be required in this arrangement. You have been warned."
Old fashioned I may be, but I recognise that life is not perfect and anything worth having is worth working for, and that includes making a success of a marriage. I accept that it takes two and sometimes, with the best will and effort in the world it goes wrong, and that is the reason we have the Matrimonial Causes Act. But come on, you cannot really be serious to suggest that it is an enshrined Human Right to be able to simply dump another human being on a whim?
The world is already too egotistical, selfish and arrogant; let's not encourage yet another 'princess' generation to really believe that they, men and women, must be allowed to have everything they want, when they want it and on their own terms at someone else's expense.
Marriage is a great university for a whole range of life skills. I know that I have been very lucky, but we have both also had to work very hard for what we have today.