Do you beleive in marriage and if not why not?

Question

Church people <<< very interested in your answers.

Answer 1

1. I believe that marriage is a positive institution for building trusting relationships that allow people to focus on both building intimacy and creating stability in their lives.

2. I believe that prevention of sexually transmitted infections is best managed through monogamous relationships akin to marriage.

3. I believe that children are well served in such stable relationships, but that in the best marriages, so are members of the couple.

4. I believe that people have been urged to get married for reasons that go beyond these goals, e.g., to prevent family shame or promote family honor, to procure or pass on property, to gain a servant or a breadwinner.

5. I believe that marriages are different from one another, and so it is impossible to declare that any one model will fit for everyone, in the same way that no one job will fit for all persons.

6. I believe that marriage has undergone changes throughout its existence and that these changes have rendered the current models totally different from most earlier models of marriage.

7. I believe that marriage as it is currently construed in the West involves a stronger emotional bonding than has been assumed throughout most of history.

8. I also believe other things about marriage, but I'll stop here.

Answer 2

I am a "church person" - if that means anybody who goes to church. I am a member of a Religious Science church. So I suppose I am part of the "church people" - in your mind. Whatever that means.

I don't believe in marriage. I am 50. I've never been married. I've lived with a man and his daughter for almost 10 years. It works for me. (And yes, it's okay with my church)

I maybe maybe maybe - would get married SPIRITUALLY - but I don't believe in legal marriage. What is it for? To me - it seems like a way to protect yourself in case it doesn't work out.

I do have friends who are married - and they work very hard on their marriages - and it seems to work well for them. I respect and honor their choices.

I believe marriage to be a promise that you will spend THE REST OF YOUR LIFE with another person. That promise has always seemed too huge for me. I'm not about to make a promise that I'm not 100% sure of keeping. So - no marriage for me. (but maybe a Spiritual marriage when I'm 75 or 80 - 'cause then - the "rest of my life" won't seem so horribly long.)

Answer 3

Yes, but I think people get married with out even realizing what marriage is. Marriage is suppose to last forever, and now in days people get marred on a wem and wind up divorced seven or maybe a little less longer or more longer than that. If you have even the slightest dough or feeling that you might get divorced someday than you should not married. Also people get married way to young. My cousin just got married, and she was not even out of high school. Marriage is suppose to be a very special bond that last for ever. What ever happened to that concept???

Answer 4

Marriage exists, it requires no belief.

I think that our culture is more repressive/strict about marriage than it needs to be. Humans by nature are not monogamous, and while some can and do fit into monogamy it is not the best for all. Also our obsession with its supposed sanctity limits/prohibits same sex marriages for no real reason.

Note: I'm not against marriage, but I think we need a more healthy view on it.

Answer 5

I'm not adamantly opposed to it, but I would say that it's not for me.

Gene Simmons and George Clooney have this one right.

Answer 6

I think it depends on the person. I think it should be their choice, but it should be taken more seriously if a person decides to get married.

Answer 7

Yes, if that is the way you choose to show your commitment to your partner, but I don't feel it is necessary. To each his or her own. Commitments don't have to be legal.

Answer 8

Yes, this woman does, and so does her WIFE of 14 years, TYVM.

Answer 9

it's ok for the tax breaks I suppose.