Do you think if there were a limit to how many times you could get married?

Question

people would think it through a little more carefully and there'd be less annulments & divorces?

Answer 1

Yeah right most people are nitwits. I say there should be more control over getting married in the first place. No matter if you are religious or not you should have to get some type of marriage counseling before getting hitched. Not that it would help 100% but I think it would be better then the way it is now.

Answer 2

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I don't think the current problem is that people don't think it through carefully. Many of us (heck, probably all of us) go into the first marriage thinking it's going to last forever. In my case, for example, I dated a LOT of women, waited 'til I was 30 and still had a terrible marriage. This happens a lot.

I think the real problem is that our society encourages everyone to expect that they will have everything they want, exactly the way they want it, at the exact second that they want it. Life isn't like that, and marriage is CERTAINLY not like that. So as soon as a certain type of person hits a little bump in the road, they either go running to find someone to cheat with, or go back to the irresponsibility of their single life. They are not guilty of giving insufficient thought before they got married, but they are guilty of not giving their marriage every chance that it deserves.

On top of that, consider the fact that many people in the world belong to a religion that DOES limit the number of marriages they may have. The limit is 1. And yet the divorce rate among those people is just as high as it is in the general population. So having some limit on getting married probably won't change people's behaviors.
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Answer 3

I think nowadays people don't take marriage as seriously as past generations. It is too easy to get a divorce.. I think some marriages would last a little longer if people worked at getting over some of the bumps in the road. Granted, there are some marriages that are just not made to work.

Answer 4

No, I think when most people get married it is because they truly believe that it will last forever and they want to spend their entire lives with that one person. Then reality sets in and it's not such a fairtail and they move on to find that again, thinking somewhere there is a fairytail that will last forever. In real life there is work, struggles, and family challenges (just to name a few things) sometimes it is easier to keep searching then to actually work at creating what you want.

Answer 5

Hmm. I think it would have an effect on some people. But then we always have those inbreds who never pay attention or care about anything and will do whatever the hell they please anyways. Then when they go to the justice of the peace to get married and are told they aren't allowed to, they'd be like "Damn government is always giving me a hard time. Let's go get our food stamps."

Answer 6

Utah would always be the way around that. Hmm, I should move to Utah, then I can marry like 12 chicks and get turned bown because of a headache by all of them

Answer 7

No, because it has nothing to do with the marriage laws but the people who decide they want to try playing house but aren't really committed to building and keeping the relationship going.

Answer 8

Then I'll do a Gene Simmons and never get married,just have a life partner.

Answer 9

You'd think peeps would get it right the first time.



My mothe in law has married 8 times, twice to my father in law! lol!

Answer 10

Maybe, but I tend to think it wouldn't have that much effect. Perhaps if we made it more difficult to get a marriage license......