Some people get married some people dont, others say a date they are to get

Marriage is between two persons. Some people spend a lot of time together, like many years, 5 - 7 years be dating couples for instance. They eventually found out that they don't love each other. All of these years simply waste of time. That is one reason we are so confused about love. So am I, take me 5 long years, that I knew that the girl never love me, and I just fall in love all on my own. I am leaving her.

I’m married and like it that way because I enjoy my partner, daughter and myself being a family with the same name. Marriage is important to me but it isn’t for everybody and that is ok. My sister has a child with her partner, they are not married and their everyday life is much the same as ours. It is a personal choice…I love sharing the same name as my child.

For me it boils down to whether children are involved or not. Times change, but I will always believe that when two people bring a child into the world they need to do it in a legal and socially responsible manner.

Hi Joy many are chickens to get married they won't to get that responsibility when they got married it is normal if you mad to your partner if she/he won't marry you that is the goal in dating for me

Hi joystick, The plain meaning of a marriage is to stay together as husband and wife both to give an out let to their biological need or urge to copulate to begate children. now how they get into it is a mater of discourse. the marriage system varies from culture to culture. Whatsoever the way people adopt the basic purpose is the same. When there is detail talks on the marriage of the boy and girls we usually call it social marriage for there is nothing that the society would raise finger at them. in some cases the pair elopes to get married and they seek social recognition. When an individual decides to abstain from marital ties he/she can not be forced to enter into it. There are some who stay together for a long time just as two different individuals they could gain the status of husband and wife or not is solely up to their decision.

for me i am also in favor of living in before getting married because in this case you can really know each other before getting into more complicated situation "the married life"...my mother always told me that marriage is not an easy task to do,not an easy thing to accomplish, and not an easy situation to handle...it is a big responsibility to shoulder!!!it is a long time commitment to face so we have to think of it a million times before deciding if you were really ready to enter into a most complicated situation because it is not easy to have an annulment nowadays...

I must follow my bible teaching in this. I do not think it is right to "Live in sin" as some feel they must do. If you have know each other for long enough to know you are right for each other then it should be ok to marry and raise a family.

if it could only be a living-in together without the marriage, it's fine. but anyways with or without the marriage, it will be best to enter to this kind of relationship when you are perfectly ready to handle financial and emotional obligations to the family.

Some are the marrying kind and some aren't. Has to do with feeling free and being independant. I think Brad and Jolie have it right when they say they will not marry until all people straight or other wise can marry. I also think that if someone is in a relationship and doesn't know where their partner stands on marriage is simply an idiot and wasting alot of time.

Hi Joy many are chickens to get married they won't to get that responsibility when they got married it is normal if you mad to your partner if she/he won't marry you that is the goal in dating for me

For me dating and marriage are not for me at all! I gave up on dating 18 years ago! I have never been married and never will be! I have come to realize I am happy without men in my life! Men are to much work and can't always be trusted. The only way it could happen if I had complete control of the relationship! I know it would be the only way for things to work! Some people are meant to be married and some not! I am in the not pile and proud of it!

My son, who will be 21 next month is getting married next summer to a girl who will be 25. I personally feel you don't need to get married that young...although I did the exact same thing 23 years ago. In November, they will have been together a year. I am a pessimist about weddings I think. While sitting friend's and family's weddings, I wonder to myself if this couple stay together for the duration or be one of the 50% who will end up divorced. I am sure I will be contacting my friends here as the wedding gets closer. I do know that I will NOT be the MIL from hell that my MIL was before my wedding.

I think it depends on how couples look at marriage. If they see as a sacred thing as prescribed by the religion they practiced they will respect it. If they see as a way of life, then it can be violated and destroy by just being disrespectful of the vows and its sanctity. It really depends on how couple see and perceived marriage and not based on statistics and others' opinions.