Living together vs Marriage.

I'm currently living with my 'husband' and we have a year old daughter but I would like to get married someday. We've been together for over 4 years but marriage isn't on the horizon as of yet. My 'husband' is a very good man but I think he's scared of marriage...though I don't understand why because for me the most difficult part is adjusting your way of life when you start to live under the same roof.

I think marriage is a waste of time, paper and money. It doesn't really keep people together, look how high the divorce rate is. Love keeps people together not marriage. To me weddings are just shows and marriage is just a piece of paper that says you belong to each other.

For me marriage is important only for law but I think that the relationship must to be the same in both situations. I have a relationship and I live with my boyfriend, one day we would to be married but we are happy now without marriage. I think that soem problems bacame more hard when a couple is married that when they live together. It's strange a lot!!

Im not married... yet dont living in with my boyfriend.. For me its ok living in with your love, practicality wise... some marriage now didnt work out, as years goes by they divorced! Living in can make partners know each other, if they are compatible with each other that can lead to marriage!

My partner and I live together and we'll probably never bother to get married. I don't see the point. We have all the same legal obligations and rights, and far less of the hassle and expense.

It depends on the people. Everyone is different. It is just a matter of what works best for people.

here in the philippines, our culture is against living in together. but i do believe sometimes, it's necessary. i for one. i am inlove with my boyfriend for 8 months now. it's a long distance relationship. we talked about marriage because we're in the right age for it. i'm 28 and he's 30. but we agreed to get married after one or two years. i will move with him to sweden soon. and before we finally tie the knot, i want to give him the chance to know me more and vice versa. he understands because i don't wanna end up getting stressed because i or him wanna get a divorce one day. but i do love him so much. and he loves me, too. and we do understand each other. that's more important than rushing into marriage without even thinking!

My partner and I have one child together and have been together for four years, living together for about three and a half of those, and engaged for about three years. I think he is an amazing person and although we have our ups and downs, at the end of the day I know he is the one for me and I can't wait to marry him in March of next year. I think marriage is completely dependent onthe individuals relationship and unique circumstances. Priorities are going to be different for everyone...

I think people who are getting married should try living together for awile before they do get married that way they get to know the person before they take the plunge and later regret it because they did not realise how the person was until you lived with him/her.

Well, I tried both. I do not think that a document can make better a relationship. I was married for 8 yrs.We divorced when our son was born. Our divorce was simple. We are in good relationshop, but we could not live together. AND NOW! I live with my boyfriend for 2yrs. He loves my son asif he were his father. We do not want to get married. We love each other. We have our home. That is enough.

if you are happy it is uninteresting whether you live together ore are married. live is always changing, maybe love also. and then...the "rose battles" are coming...with many hurts. the love you ever felt is forgotten...only money is important. so enjoy your love how long it will ever be.

To me getting married is important so that the children can get a clear status of who their parents are. And when the children goes to school, their identity can be recognized as.. this child is this fellow's son... and so on... and so on... That's my opinion. Thank you.

both the things are very diffrent.... i [prefer living together because marriages binds you

no.need to get married if it is you are ready to get divorced in the next minute because marriage is a real commitment where you realy have pacience. it is really happence when to hands clap together.

I would rather be married then have a live in love because that will give him a reason to come and go when ever he wants. Before you marry you should have a clear ideaal on what you expect and what is expected of you. If you can't agree on anything then leave that relationship alone.

seeing the high rate od divorce cases it seems much better to have commonlaw relations, but anytime when kids are in question marrige is better. so before such couples bear kids they must get married cos i see so many females complaining that after the kid the father walked off and now they have problems bringing up the kids.

The important is to love each other... it does not madder if you are married or not..

The problem is in each and every country they have there on culture and society. I prefer being married and having family life with children etc.

Yes, I do agree with u...Instead of getting married at night and then getting divorced in the morning, just bcoz ur partner snores( just and example)..Its better to wait and know the person, accept him with his qualities ( Bad and good both)...Just make sure that u want to grow old with the person u r marrying...

i think nobody is 100% perfect..everybody is having his/her own positive and negative qualities...the best way is to see the positive qualities of the person whom you wanna spend your life with. In my point of view living together vs. marriage both are same thing except we seeing through different galsses. In both cases partenrs get hurt when they are seperated and assign it their mistake..the only difference is of a tag "divorcee" but i think ppl who live together don't care for this tag...so why to think that marriage is permanent or living together is temporary....when outcome is same :-)