Is marriage a choice?

If you are married you are better than who are not.

@dhoyalahoy No I made mistake in marrying. I should have stayed single friend. Not for me.

This is untrue in far too many cases. After all it is not so long ago that many women and men stayed in abusive relationships because of the stigma attached to divorce or raising your child as a single parent. Even today in many religions divorce is frowned upon no matter what the reason. A friend of mine raised as a strict Catholic lived for 20 years in a marriage where she was both beaten and raped. She only found the courage to leave when her younger son turned 18 as she felt at least her sons had been raised within a marriage that was right in the eyes of her religion. Those boys begged her to leave they had watched their mother used as a punchbag their entire lives. She still feels guilty about her divorce being wrong in the eyes or her church and extended family. Her case isn't unusual there are plenty trapped in that same position. Living a life of terror trapped in a loveless relationship due to beliefs installed in them as children. I was brought up in a happy home my parents adored each other to their dying day. Many of my friends suffered the same as my friends sons. They watched 2 people who no longer even cared about each other argue every night while their kids just wished they'd divorce. I still know many of those parents most of them eventually divorced and went on to have happy relationships with other partners. Unfortunately by that point they'd wasted 25 years of their lives making both their partner and their kids unhappy while staying together for the kids or religious reasons. I was raised to respect others right to live their lives as they choose regardless of race, religion or anything else and to look for the good in people. Sadly it would appear that our choice of a very happy, committed and loving relationship somehow makes us less worthy than a wife beater or a cheater with a piece of paper making others lives miserable.

@dhoyalahoy Yes it is.

@just4him can you create a teaching about importance of marriage in God's perspective.

Marriage is God designed relationship

Career is the commong reason. They live - in because they can't commit yet for career sake

@dhoyalahoy i completely agree , but people are not at all giving any value to those qualities and standards what we call..

@prashu228 and that kills the future with quality ang standard. LOL

Maybe correct, but is lowering the standard and quality of a true relationship

Single is a choice. But when you want to enter into a relationship, marriage is a choice. LOL

@dhoyalahoy It is still the same context in entering into such situation.

@Shavkat I see. May be.I just set different standard when I court my wife. Or maybe it's depend on man's principles and woman's view.

@dhoyalahoy This generation people don't want any responsibilities ,

I don't think so. The paper will change your responsibility.

@prashu228 That's exactly correct... Because this generation won't go any farther but disaster.

If people will see it as piece of paper, our future is dim and dark.