The Western ren'ai kekkon, or love marriage, became popular; Japanese began picking their own mates by dating and falling in love.

西方的婚恋变得流行起来；日本人开始通过约会和恋爱来选择自己的伴侣。

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Scarlett - who announced her separation from husband Ryan Reynolds last year after two years of marriage - is allegedly completely smitten with Sean and wants everyone to know they are dating.

斯嘉丽去年宣布和丈夫瑞安·雷诺兹分居，打算结束两年的婚姻。据传这次斯嘉丽对肖恩·潘爱的死去活来的，她想要全世界都知道他们在一起了。

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Dating and marriage should feel different from each other.

每个人对约会和结婚的看法都不同。

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Zhou Xiaopeng, a consultant at one of China's top three dating agencies, Baihe.com, talks to the BBC about marriage, love and dating in today's China.

BBC: Q&A: Chinese dating consultant Zhou Xiaopeng

But some sociologists, such as Millsom Henry-Waring of the University of Melbourne, have given warning that electronic forms of communication in general and digital-dating services in particular are gradually changing society's conception of relationships and marriage for the worse by encouraging people to view partners as commodities that can simply be traded in for better versions at the click of a computer mouse.

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Any seeming nostalgia for a time when dating, courtship, matchmaking, marriage, and family formation was more scripted actually masks a deep sense of regret over how indeterminate the millennial cohort seems to be on the most personal, individual level.

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