Why do people get married?

Question

I'm just wondering... What exactly justifies you to take that step?

Answer 1

For superficial reasons that our society deems important. There is no real reason to get married. You can have a life with somone and have all of the things people say come with marriage without ever getting married.

Answer 2

Unfortunately many people marry based on sexual feelings toward their partner. When real life hits them in the face, they find out how little they really knew about the person they married.

People should make the decision to get married when they have found someone who is their best-friend first, and their lover second. Being best friends will help you work through hard times together as a team and help keep those little arguments of "why don't we have sex every day like we used to" from being as likely to come into play. Your best friend you will know almost as good as you know yourself, and the same will be the case from them. Until you have the bond of knowing a person from the inside out, you don't really have the making of a solid relationship that can weather the storms life will throw at you.

Answer 3

Certainly not for the same reasons they did fifty years ago!
Some people marry for love, some people marry for security, some people marry for companionship, some people marry for money, and some people marry just because they think they should because everyone else is doing it, some people marry to raise a family, and I'm sorry to say that some people marry so they will have someone to divorce and take what was never theirs in the first place.

Answer 4

It's a public confirmation of your devotion to each other for the rest of your lives. It's often times religious, in that having relations outside of marriage is a sin. It's just a shame that so many people turn it into a joke and don't take it seriously. And then that leads people like you wondering what's the point. Sad.

Answer 5

Men usually get married because their mothers have allowed them to become dependent on a woman for basic survival needs, food, laundry, maid service, and they get married just to replace their mother's role in their life (but with benefits). Women get married so that they can have a source of genetic material and a support system to have children. They play upon the man's need for a mother replacement and the hormones that drive them to want to mate. They usually have to accomplish this before a man figures out how to use a pan and mop, because men will play upon the need of women to find a mate to get them through the hormone phase of their development and if they figure out they can exist and be happy without a woman lashed to them, they will . Women retaliate against such men by shunning them and withdrawing their unmarried female friends as possible matches for them. The men are then condemned to being alone which forces them to become rich and use other inducements to attract suitable women for those needs they still have. Unmarried women get cats. Where is love in all this mix? It's there as a chemically triggered survival trait that can be gotten through if you are strong enough.
Once a woman gets past the breeding stage and has chucked her support system (while retaining half of all he has) can find that the independant male they shunned earlier in life can make the best companions later in life. They share the chores and will treat you as an equal. They are not needy and because of diversity in their love life, are most considerate lovers, provided you are lucky enough to find one that isn't dating your youngest daughter.

Answer 6

I suppose to make a commitment instead of just living together. I think everyone should live together for at least a year to see what it's like. Knowing someone & dating them even for a couple of years is not at the same as living with that person day in & day out.

Answer 7

Me and my boyfriend just got engaged after 7yrs of living together, I want to get married for many reasons. I want to be a real part of his wonderful family (they already treat me that way) but marriage is the ultimate commitment and it signifies the loyalty and honor you both share to everyone else in the world. I want to be able to be in the emergeny room with him if I need to be, I want to be able to get on his insurance if I ever need to be. It allows you to take care of each other more in those aspects and if he ever gets hurt they'll know who to call- his wife. Most of all we love each other alot, and we both know that but noone else does. If you tell someone you have a boyfriend most of the time they say so- whats that got to do with me. But a husband or wife signifies MUCH more to people, plus I want to be joined in union before God. There are many reasons to get married, and I feel really sorry for everyone who doesn't understand the deeper meanings of marriage and love.

Answer 8

Commitment to love each other forever. Marriage is a covenant between 1 man and 1 woman in which each, can fully trust and depend on the other, through anything. This is the way that God intended marriage to be.

Answer 9

I am still trying to figure that one out. I have been married twice and I really wish I hadn't ever. Don't get me wrong I love my husband but we were happier before we got married. We have been together for eight years and we waited four years to get married. I look back now and realize there must have been a reason we waited so long.

Answer 10

People have their reason why they get married, but the Bible (God) say married is made between a man & women and those two shall become one. It is part of my faith and belive why i am married, to be able to love my husband tell death do us apart, to have kids and a family boned, you can do these thing out of marriage, but as a women you feel empty inside, because you are living a life out of the will of God.

Good Luck