Do u think your partner is more important than your parents?

Well I don't have a very good or loving background when it comes to parents as they left us on the sidewalk for the Children's Aid Society to pick up and give to some other family. We were 4 brothers, age 3 1/2 to 9 so you could well imagine that we would not be placed together, so we were split up until we reached 18 years of age. I married when I was 29 and have been married now, to the same girl, for 26 years, 27 come April. The many foster parents I went through don't have any place in my heart either so I would say I am one of those people that would definitely put my wife and son above any of the parents I have had. They don't even deserve dog food actually. My partner is 10 times more important to me than my parents. Probable far more than 10 times really.

Yeah, they are different! All of them are important! Some people treat their parents like dogs couldn't even be compared to dogs! I have to go now!

My mum told me that once I was married my partner should take prority over my parents. I always loved and respected my parents but my partner came first. He had to take second place once the children came along though.

It really depends on your relationship with your parents and with your spouse. Perhaps if your parents were abusive or you were a foster child with foster parents that didn't love you? Although you did have parents how could you respect them or love them for the treatment that they gave you? However what if you had good relationship with your parents? Then I'm not sure how someone could put anyone above the other person. Really we should respect our parents even if they didn't raise us the best. Your spouse is important factor in your life, too. It depends on what you're doing and why you are putting one member ahead of the other. Pablo

Both a person's parents and their spouse are important, in a different way. The bible states that when a man marries he will leave his parents and cleave unto his spouse, and they shall become one flesh. This indicates that one is expected to care as much about his or her spouse as they do about themselves. This does not mean that one should love and respect their parents any less, but the relationship is different. Would that all parents understood this.

As a Christian, we are told to honor our Father and our Mother. But..... when we get married, we are told to "leave" our parents and to "cleave" to our spouse. Your spouse should come first. You are building a life with this person. However, parents should be honored (visited, respectfully spoken to, called on the phone, etc.) But they are to let you live your own life and not interfere between a husband and a wife. In the US , we say we "cut the apron strings" when we get married. I realize that this is different in other cultures where the families still live together. But I still say the the married coulple should be thinking and acting together first. Then the parents second.

I should not think so; in fact, my parents are just as important to me as my husband. Moreover, my parents are old; they need my care and help more than my husband, and fortunately he understands!

I really think my parents are much more important than partners! In fact they are in the different level, so they are no comparison.