The traditional methods aren't working any more, but new methods haven't been set up yet to take their place--that's the main reason the marriage market is out of kilter these days. As Chien Chun-an puts it, "In today's society nearly everyone longs for a marriage based on love, but they don't know how to go about expressing it."
傳統方式逐漸不靈，新的模式又未建立，正是現代婚姻市場失調的主因。簡春安指出，「現今社會中，絕大多數的人嚮往自由戀愛，卻不懂如何示愛。」