2006-07-06 11:47:12 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Sure - it's about being committed to keeping your legal contract to stay together until death. The point is that without love, most people don't want to stay together. So it could last, but it wouldn't be happy.
The flip side of the same coin is that relationships WITH love can fail. There are many, many factors in what keeps people together or tears them apart.
2006-07-06 11:57:44 · answer #1 · answered by HearKat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a word - no. From my parents' example, love is one of the most important things for a good marriage. If the marriage doesn't have it, you might as well just get divorced and remain friends. And if you didn't love each other in the first place, why get married?
2006-07-06 11:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by extremetyke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe a marriage can last without love, because reality "marriage" is just another contract we sign.
however a happy marriage can not last without passion! u can fix everything in a marriage but passion. Sure u can spice things up for a while with props from a sex shop, but once the passion is dead u'll never feel the same way for the other again.
2006-07-06 11:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by Aussieblonde -bundy'd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. What would the marriage be based on? Love is one of the most important things IN a marriage. Why waste time with someone you don't love?
2006-07-06 11:49:56 · answer #4 · answered by carolscreation 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no sense in staying with someone who you do not love, when there is always the opportunity for you to find love. Why waste the only life you will have without knowing the joy of love?
2006-07-06 11:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by mdsredhen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. I am asking myself that question now. I think it matters if one or both parties in the marriage have lost love for each other. I don't love my husband anymore, I don't hate him, I just don't love him. I guess you could say that I am indifferent. Well, anyway, he says that he still loves me. We have not divorced................yet. I am not happy by any means and I don't see how he could possibly be happy either. I have not left because I am not looking for love with someone else, I am just hanging out with the man that I am married to and my kids. What else am I going to do? I will probably just wait until he is ready to move on.....................................
2006-07-06 16:30:45 · answer #6 · answered by Sissy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How wierd is that? An ex (of 17 years!) and I recently "found" each other over the internet. He sent me a rambling e mail all about how he was married with two kids, but didn't love his wife.
My conclusion is, therefore either (a) it's possible or (b) he wants to bump uglies with me.
(b) ain't gonna happen, so I therefore conclude that yes, it is possible!
2006-07-06 11:53:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No without love, what is going to hold you together? Love will keep people together through ups and downs and turn arounds.
2006-07-06 11:55:52 · answer #8 · answered by silverboy470 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure if there is respect or wealth and each is allowed to have their own play mate on the side
as happens with many partnerships that are called mairage ,which may be for the sake of the children ,or politics or money or power or as camouflage
2006-07-06 11:51:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The longer u try 2 make it last the more miserable it becomes for both spouses. Let it go
2006-07-06 11:50:52 · answer #10 · answered by Dan S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋