What is the POINT of Marriage?

I have not yet gotten married or even engaged for that matter. I have been with my boyfriend for only 9 months but we are certainly in the process. Marriage for me is not about religion, though I am catholic, nor is it about money or socitey. From the time he and I first started speaking we had no expectations for a realtionship, only hopes for a great friendship. At the time he was going through a separation and is now close to having the divorce final. He doubted the whole idea of a happy marriage in the beginning because his first marriage went horribly wrong after the girl cheated on him while he was in Afghanistan. From the beginning both of us were skeptical of the way we felt about each other but we didnt doubt that it was real. We loved each other more than anything almost immediately. Both of us have been very supportive of each other. We love each other so much and nothing could make us happier than being together. You hear people sometimes say that it physically hurts them to be apart from the one they love. I never understood until Brandon came home to visit from Italy and when he left I cried for hours. We have been talking about marriage for a while. It isnt about religion,money, society or anything else except the love and devotion we feel for each other. We want to be able to share everything we have with each other, and if that means our last names as well then so be it. Marriage is something we do for ourselves not for anyone or anything else. I can not wait to be his wife.

I am a very strong Christian, but marrying my husband had nothing to do with religious reasons. I married him because he is the love of my life and nothing makes me happier than being able to say I am his wife. Marriage is the ultimate commitment in a relationship. You are saying that the person is the ONLY person you want to spend your life with and it's a way of joining two separate lives into one. Too many people treat marriage frivolously now. I took my wedding vows very seriously and I plan to honor them all of my life. We had a beautiful wedding and didn't spend anything even remotely close to $50,000.

Definitely it is the necessary of marriage. Without Marriage who will know you had relation with your loving ones. If you made a marriage and call all people and told she is my loving partner. By saying that you are giving respect to your wife.

bt in our country it is a tradition..human being is a sociable person.. and socity wont allow u live together if both of u r not married...it is also legel bonding also between them

I think that have a wedding and marriage is something that you do before God

i dunno. i guess it's just a celebration that you have to show your love for someone. in certain religions like catholic your promising to give yourself only to that person and love them to the day you die.

it think it solidifies the whole situation and if you have kids it makes them more legidimate and safe. just a uh, security thing.

I think it is better for 2 people to draw up a contract and a list of what they bring into the marriage individually so it is easier for thing to be distributed if things don't work out.... I think the woman should just tack the mans name on the end when they do get married and then just drop the mans name when Divorcing....

turning point in life

We believe that it is the right thing to do. There was no pressure involved it was both parties decision to get married. It's better to have it written on the paper and see that your legally united as one.

ending of freedom i think just

boy and girl should know each other before each other

Well I think some do it just to fufill all righteousness. This especially the case in Europe and America. But the situatuion is different in most part of Africa where marriage is seen as a "glorious" institution. It is not religion in Africa but part of the norms and values of the community.

Its all very nice to have the big white wedding and all the trimmings once maybe if you can afford it all, But these days sadly marrages dont seem to last and if they dont - I really dont see the sence in doing it again after all you cant get married in a church a second time can you! I think at the end of the day all a marriage is is a piece of paper.

For me it was mostly about tradition. I don't see marriages as religious events but more about traditions that bind families together. That is the reason I wanted to get married. We spent maybe $100 on our wedding (including the cost of the marriage liscense). I also feel there is no reason to get married if you don't want to. I'd rather see a hundred unmarried happy couples then a bunch of couples that get married and then divoced a few years later because they couldn't make it work.

Where I live now, in Netherlands it is not really popular to be married anymore. Many people we know have a domestic partnership. This enables them to have certain things as a married couple would, but they have contracts and such instead. (Sort of like a pre-nup) I think that I would prefer to be married but not because of religeous or tax reasons but because of how men are now adays it would show that they were in fact committing and serious about the relationship. I think that the domestic partnership thing is allowing men to have the package but not to really commit. Maybe I am mistrustful of men, but if they are willing to get it on paper than I think it says much for their real feelings. I do though, understand that this is merely my opinion and I do not see other's this way only me.