Who has more fun? Single or married men/women?

Question

This question has been on mind for the past couple years. I'm wondering who has more fun, long term... a married person or single person. I'm not talking about single in college or high school, but throughout one's life until lets say about 40. Also, to those who are married if you did marry young would you do it the same all over again? Sometimes I feel in our society we get married too quickly or we get married out of a sense of obligation either to one's significant other or for religious reasons/societal influence. Is it really all it's cracked up to be with such a high divorce rate? If you think it is better to be a married person long term over single why? And if you think it’s better to be single long term over married why?

Answer 1

I am happily married and we have so much fun. Marriage is hard work... and you have to keep it interesting... but it is so worth it. I think it is better to be a married person long term over a single person. To me, being married allows you to share your life with that one person that makes your life richer. My husband and I are best friends. I am the serious one and he is a comedian! We both respect one another and love being with each other. We have learned to compromise and do things that we both love. He is definitely my soul mate... and I can't imagine life without him. He makes my life complete. It is really what it is all cracked up to be! I think the reason for a high divorce rate is the failure to communicate, lack of trust and honesty, lack of compromise, and marrying out of lust... and not love. Anyways... my (biased) vote is married.

Answer 2

I like your question, it really makes sense. I think single people have more fun than married ones because they have more freedom - they can go wherever they want, do whatever they decide and spend their money for whatever interests them. Time, money, decision-making, freedom of movement -everthing is in his/her hands. Not so with married people - it is much harder to live in tandem - and when children come, then the real struggle begins. I've wondered why people get married then (I'm one of those too!!) and besides the reasons that you mentioned, I think there is one main reason that drives everybody to take that step - it's the inborn need that God placed in our hearts to belong to someone. When we grow up, we leave a family and immediately we start longing to create a new one. Have you noticed that almost every single person desires to be married? Why? It is hard to explain but it is there, the desire to find the right person with whom you are going to share your life. It is more difficult to be married but honestly, now I can't imagine living without my husband and daughter. We've become like a hand and a glove that fits so well that you don't feel it on your hand anymore. And it feels good to be known by somebody so well with all your strengths and weaknesses and still be loved. Everybody should make his/her decision, though. Being single can give the same satisfatcion with life as marriage can. Just decide what is better for you and never regret it!

Answer 3

I have the best of both worlds. i am in a long-term commited relationship with someone I love a lot and we share a wonderful romance, home and the friendship is the best.
We went to school together so we have been around one another forever and know one another intimately.
As I am a divorcee, I am not in any rush to remarry, nor did I want to spend my life alone.
My sig other adds dimension to my life without smothering me and I like it.
You remember the story of the three bears? Well, in my opinion, this one is just right. Further, I appreciate that although we're not married, we are very muich committed. I know married couples that have far less in terms of commitment than we have. We actually enjoy being together and after all isn't that what it's all about?
Rich companionship, respect as a team and respect for the individual? This is how I define love.

Answer 4

I got married when I was 21. Every weekend, I'd still go out and party and go to bars,but I was with my husband as well as with my friends. I wasn't going to let married life stop us from having fun, We've been married for 4 years and still go out,not as frequently or to bars,but we do make an effort to enjoy life. My single friends think it's weird,but really you can still have fun and be married you just have to adjust to the lifestyle change. I do feel like you should be single for a while before getting married,mostly because that's a part of being young.

Answer 5

It might be fun to remain single but it will not be a settled life. One wud be living like an animal. If some thing untoward were to happen, who will have good enough emotional bond to look after such a person.

Answer 6

That question is totally subjective; it all depends upon what the individual wants out of life.

Does he/she want an absolute minimum of responsibilities and obligations? Does he/she need to be absolutely free to come and go as they please, without regard for the feelings of anyone else? Is it a question of being able to have sex with unlimited partners?

OR

Does he/she want a partner for life; someone to get to know intimately. Someone who will stand by them and support them through the dark times. Someone who knows how to get them off like no one else? Someone whom they can trust to NOT infect them with an STD?

It really gets to me how people talk about the divorce rate. Divorces - because they involve documentation - can be tracked; tallied. Mere relationships cannot be tracked.

What I submit to you is that there are JUST AS MANY broken, trashed relationships as there are marriages, and for the very same reasons.

It's not "marriage" that's at fault - it's that too many men and women are not emotionally MATURE enough to sustain a relationship in the first place.

A majority of relationships go down the toilet because they lack one or more of the following:


1) A long list of common interests; things you both enjoy doing TOGETHER as opposed to separate interests and separate groups of friends.

2) A lot of tolerance for each other's differences. As much as you share in common, you're still going to rub one another wrong from time to time. Be mature and deal with it. Separate the small $h!t from the serious stuff.

3) A sense of compromise; so that you can work out your problems with a minimum of emotional trauma. It's marital negotiation.

4) A sense of sympathy and forgiveness. You're both going to screw up on occasion. You need to be able to forgive, forget, and move on with the relationship.

Answer 7

i am 27 yrs old and i have been married since i was 18....i sat and thuoght about this a while back....i think you should wait to get married be cuz the simple fact that if you spend your yunger years married and all of a sudden your marrige ends,you dont know what to do...becuz thats is all you know,the same thing year after year..being with the same person....i know i would be lost with out my wife...she is my world...so i am going to say being married has to be more fun...i just hope it lasts a life time...i hope this answers youe question

Answer 8

I was very bored without my wife, and then had a blast while I was married; even through the tough parts. Now that I'm divorced because she left me, I find that I will probably end up just like my Dad, only with less money, no future, and no social life.

I can't wait to die, and I'm only 27.

Answer 9

you make your own fun no matter if your married or single , it is the people who are in the relationships who make the fun.
marraige does however put a heavier lock and key on the relationship , and offers heavier security , and higher exit penalties , but both are statistcally at the same chance of being rear ended in a fued .

Answer 10

lol well i got to say us married men,,,,while the singel out huntting an speding, big money,,, they only think they have fun,,,,, but see us married men ,know the real deal, is to have a good women to come home to,,,an some one going to, to take us as we are, we dont need to put a show on,,an try to be, what the singel girl , want,,, we findly found the one we look for so long,,