The number of people who give their job first priority than love and marriage for both man and woman is increasing now. These day, it is tendency to marry later. Many people want to marry after being in their thirties. They think that they want to throw themselves into their job in the meantime.
For a marital relationship, it's the best that husband and wife has been like a close friend. The reason why they can lead a pleasant married life by what each other are en equal position and always have sense of a best friend. I think that husband and wife must not have an extramarital affair after marriage.
It is more fun and cheerful to have a child in a married life, but it's not always duty of a woman to have a child.
There are still arrenged marriages even now, because it's the most appropriate way to find a partner for men and women really hoping marriage. A current omiai is one of a more secure and certain of meeting places. So, there are still omiai in Japan.