2007-08-16 08:44:06 · 13 answers · asked by socalbabe58 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
No, even though it might be a bit harder to reach that point than it was in the past. Nowadays we consider building a career more important than creating a family, we are really good at controlling our feelings because we were hurt too many times by people who only wanted to have fun and didn't care about any sort of commitments, we rather focus on the material side of life, and it's much easier for us to just leave home whenever we decide we've fallen in love with someone else even though we have a wife and kids who need us. Morals have changed too much. Don't you think this is the reason why we never share an opinion about these things with our parents and the things we come across every day we hide from them because they are not prepared to learn them and accept them (like the things we do at parties nowadays as compared to the things our parents did when they were our age)?
2007-08-16 09:14:15 · answer #1 · answered by Doolittle_212 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Why would you need the church or the state or validate your relationship? The validation should come from within yourselves. The only advantages to marriage are legal. You should check into that before making up your mind. As for me, I am totally committed to my relationship and I feel more secure in that relationship not being married because I know he's here because he wants to be and not because he's afraid of how much it would cost to get rid of me; and if you do split up, it's much easier to stay on friendly terms afterwards without lawyers stirring things up. By the way, the only way you will die a lonely old woman is if you never learn to be happy with yourself.
2007-08-16 16:02:45 · answer #2 · answered by Tracy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all...people just need to go into it with the view that instead of "til death do us part" it's "as long as it's good and right for us both".
There are a number of benefits to marriage, many of them legal, that couples who want to commit to each other can have...but if they do not marry, they don't have those legal rights.
2007-08-16 15:51:44 · answer #3 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is pointless to live in a noncommitted relationship. If you are going to be with someone you want the commitment of marriage first.
2007-08-16 15:51:19 · answer #4 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not pointless. People just need to define their reason for doing it a little better so it's not so "disposable".
2007-08-16 15:52:45 · answer #5 · answered by peggy m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not everyone should get married, and not everyone should have children, either.
Some people just don't have what it takes to make it work...
Everybody is different.
I believe in marriage and what it stands for, but that's me.
2007-08-16 16:33:36 · answer #6 · answered by Nena S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's not. But when you do get married be sure it's love and let it be for life.
2007-08-16 15:53:15 · answer #7 · answered by rosa3332003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you think the "point" is.
It's not pointless to me, but to you it may seem different.
2007-08-16 15:51:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no...because if you never marry then you most likely will become a lonely old wrinkly women living with 24 cats.
2007-08-16 15:49:39 · answer #9 · answered by Gingerbread...not Wonderbread!!! 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Not if you are a mature couple in love, who want to have a family together.
2007-08-16 16:10:10 · answer #10 · answered by Lydia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋