Is marriage a dying institution?

You have to put a lot of work in a marriage to make it last as there are ups and downs in all marriages, it will not only be a bed of roses,specially the initial years at least for 7 years it is tough then you get used to each others habits and then you can sort of handle most of the things, if there is God in you marriage as a 3rd partner with both of youll he will cement the bond of marriage firmly and it will last forever, don't worry about statistics, and you can make it work even in today's world.

Definetly not in india. It is much less here. We value and institutionalise marriages. it is a a great concept and the last resort is divorce. We are proud of Indian system.

hubby and wife should be in love i think .in that case divorce chancs are very rare.becoz they will understand each other very well and bad things wont happen.thts my opinion

I think specially here in my country that most marriages fail because its either it was just a marriage of convenience, the couple was too young to get married, the bride got pregnant so they had to marry for the childs' sake, because it was an arranged marriage or because they dont love the person they married. As these people live their lives together, they start to notice their differences and ther distance from each other, understanding is taken out of the picture as well because there is no love between the two persons, even if 1 person is inlove with the other it will still not work because it takes two to tango- the relationship will just end up frustrating for the one who is in love and the other one will just get irritated because he has no affection or whatsoever to the person he married- which is really not fair if you will look at it. People marry people that they dont really love because of: 1. money 2. baby on the way 3. because their parents told them to 4. they just got carried away 5. They're running out of time- getting old by the moment but i believe regardless of these facts- the fact that people chose to get married despite of the conflicts, they should make an effort to make the relationship work! no matter how hard it is- they have to be a team player- your married now for pete's sake- dont give excuses that u dont love the person enough because u married the person! so you better bear with it- even if it was just force upon you to marry the person, do your job, make the relationship work, its a partnership, and besides i beleive if people work together to better understand each other then divorce won't be necessary anymore.

If your love has its foundation, you're far from having a divorce. People get married for so many reasons but LOVE should be the main reason and LOVE should be unconditional. I u marry a person because of his/her wealth or looks then you are bound to be separated afterwards. If you're planning to get married, ask yourself first if you really love that person and that he/she also loves you the same.

marriage is a wonderfil thing and children need to be brought up to hld marriage as a sacred thing..

Well this is a good topic because yes I've noticed that the percent of divorced people is increasing eveyday, I'm living outside of the United States I'm from Egypt but what you've said is true most of my friends or the people I know divorced not like the past. Maybe the main reason is that women wants to marry to have kids and make raise them in a family so kids is the main reason for a woman to get married and for men they want to make a family and in the first he thinks that he is in love with this woman and after sometime he finds himself feeling that he is in prison with this woman so he gives up. Anyway the main reason for divorce is the lack of love because if the couple really loves each other they will make anything to keep this relation work and go on right but life now is so fast and people don't have time to think a lot in love or relations they only think how to work a lot and make more money so that they can live well, money is the only thing people thinks in all the time even if they didn't notice this but money is people's life now.

I find that this day and age marriage seems to be a much sensationalized issue. Some are just doing it to say "hey I am and/or was married!" Most when getting married have this big picture already planted in their heads what marriage is like and think it is all rainbows and sunshine, but when they find out that marriage is truely work in disguise many cannot handle it. So they take the easy way out and get divorced. Some just rush things, without taking the time out to really see if the relationship will last (ie. living together firstly, or actually being together for more than a year before getting married). I have never been divorced and don't really plan on getting divorced. I love my husband and we have been together for 11 years all together. We have seen many hardships throughout the years and to me working through them together has made our relationship that much more stronger. Truely I feel that people are just to willing to take the easy road, before the consideration of divorce enters a person's mind, when hardships arise they should look at the much bigger picture and see the ways that things can be worked out.

Who said that marriage is a dying institue? Don't feel like that, I'll tell one secrete First you do not expect any thing from ur partener do your best to ur partener. then no fightings nothing !! Be good and do good. All the best

Who said that marriage is a dying institue? Don't feel like that, I'll tell one secrete First you do not expect any thing from ur partener do your best to ur partener. then no fightings nothing !! Be good and do good. All the best

Dont let the statistics ruin any chance of happiness you have. Just because marriage hasnt worked for others it doesnt mean it wont for you - you just need to make sure that when you do get married it is to the right person. It would be a shame if you gave up on this particular goal just because of fear of failure which has stemmed from a set of statistics. I dont think anyone can really give advice on what makes a good marriage because what works for one couple wont work for another. Only you will know when you meet the right person and what it is that makes you good together, obviously honesty and trust play a very important part so my advice to any couple would be talk, talk and more talk.