What's your view on marriage?

Question

so many couples are just living together now, and not bothering to actually get married.Do you think marriage is still as important as it was? Personally,I think,it is still as important. Just make sure you choose the right person first!

Answer 1

marriage is very important to complete your half with your soulmate then after we have something called <>
this is the beauty of life don't miss it.

Answer 2

Marriage is not something to be taken lightly, yet many people do take it lightly. You really need to take the time to get to know the person. Marriage is a promise to stand by the person you love forever. Marriage is doing whatever it takes to make things better. You really have to work hard at it and not take each other for granted. It's all about trusting your partner. The problem is that that love fades for some people and then there's the whole unfaithful thing. All I want is to build my own family one day, but it's scary because I never really see good examples of succesful marriages. My dad has been married and divorced five times. And my mom... well, I'm not going there. I'm not married, I've been living with my boyfriend for about a year and a half. It kind of just happened because I needed a roomate and I was in a bind. I never want to get divorced when and if I ever get married. The thing is, people change and sometimes it's not healthy to stay with that person. Sometimes, I think marriage is hopeless. All those people who cheat tick me off and make me believe less in true love. Those men who think the wife should stay at home with the kids while he's out with his friends partying tick me off too. I hope dedicated and faithful men exist out there. I guess you just got to take the chance and make the best out of your life with that special person.

Answer 3

Hi,
I agree with you it is still just as important today as what it was years and years ago. I dont think it is right for couples to be shacking up or living together in sin without being married and commited. Why do they not get married. Are they afraid of saying I do and doing the right thing? Yes you have to make sure they are the right person that is why you should date and take things slow and get to know the person well and their family too. Great question!
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Answer 4

View on marriage or any such social customs needs to be reviewed with the nchanging times with the explosion of technology as well crooked ways of inheriting unaccounted money.
View foregoing, the socio-cultural change in the society greatly plays a major role.
Marriage and living together can't be viewed in the same manner.
Marriage is a social custom of bondage, whereas the system of recently introduced living together is a way to satisfy the lust of sex, which is only a secondary part of the marriage.
As you wisely noted, it is just to make sure that you choose the right person, but the same is quite impossible to judge but only liable for knowing gradually with the days you live together, whether in married life or living together style. After all one needs to have adjustments at every point of life in both the cases.

Answer 5

I don't think marriage is important any more except in a religious sense for those people who are still into that.

I don't think that we need a license from the government to give us permission to love or to procreate. The idea of a man giving his daughter away to another man; she taking on the name of the man who currently 'owns' her has no place in a modern, secular, egalitarian society.

There was an article in the paper this week about a Christian group that proposed that only religious ceremonies be considered 'marriage' and all others are civil partnerships. I think this sounds like a great idea. Everybody gets equal tax benefits etc, and doesn't have to subscribe to an out-dated institution if they don't want to.

Answer 6

It is still important because it still plays a huge role in the foundations of our society. We respect and admire married couples who stay married for several decades, don't we?

From an anthropological prospective, humans have ALWAYS paired up with a primary mate. Males generally have other females on the side but there is always one woman to whom the male bonds with most strongly and stays with for life. This bond is an unofficial marriage.

My sister just got engaged. She is a pretty independent girl, she doesn't rely on others for happiness. But still she was THRILLED when the guy proposed, because it lifted off any feelings of doubt that he might change his mind and go off for another woman.

If you're only living with a girl, she WILL have feelings of uncertainty, to some degree or another. She won't be able to fully trust you; after all, if you love her, why WOULDN'T you want to marry her?....These feelings hold you both back from reaching a deeper relationship. As long as women feel this way, marriage will always be necessary.

It's all about women's feelings :)

Answer 7

Marriage is a lost tradition in this country that isn't respected anymore like it should be. People are no longer waiting to get married. They do it when they are young and not even close to being ready. And then when the party is over (get bored) then they move on and then some are married two or three times in their lives.

Its not necessarily a bad thing but there are people who abuse this sacred vow to their own benefit. I think marriage is important as it ever was, but we unfortunately as a society mirror what the Hollywood stars are doing. Fashion, relationships, marriage, and what not. It is truly sad that we can't seem to stick together. I look at people like my grandparents age and how they are all still together, and its hard to find people like that now.....

Answer 8

Marriage is very important today. Living together, while ok with some people, is not the same as being married to that person

Answer 9

I don't think marriage is so important. I live with my boyfriend already seven months, but we are not planning wedding. Living together is enough for now. Marriage sounds like something you can't escape from. I may marry some day, but only if my partner want. If it depends on me, I won't marry, I would just live with my partner and have kids when I feel ready to be mom.

Answer 10

I am currently living with my partner and not married, as things stand I am really happy getting to know him and living together to ensure we get along before making the commitment to marry. I have been married before and had not lived with the man, I did not know how he behaved on a day to day basis. When I married and we moved in together I was in for a big shock as he was like an animal at home and it was hell. The marriage lasted 3 years and I caught him cheating on me. Now that I live with my b/f I know his bad habits and he knows mine and we can decide in advance if we can live with each other. I do want to marry him, I really do feel it it important to show that level of commitment to someone and it would make me feel secure in my relationship, I also do not want my children to be born out of wedlock (that's just my personal opinion on what I want for my life, I am not judging people who have kids out of marriage) but I am glad we have had this time together to have a practise run!

Answer 11

i think living together is a real waste of time. some people seem to think that living together practices you for marriage. there is no such thing as a practice run for marriage. if people agree on living together then already there is no commitment from both partners. imagine leaving someone after being with them for years. when you live together, breaking up is easy but difficult to get over, when you're married you are somehow more prone to work things out when there is trouble and the relationship gets stronger once things are worked out together.