this is my research topic... you feel free to give your opinion on here... but do you think this topic is too broad? should i just say 'christianity' as opposed to religion to narrow things down a bit? I hypothesize that those couples who have strong roots in religion will over all be happier~ however I'm not sure how to take into acount the religious radicals.... they may NOT be as happy... should I give TWO surveys to them, and tell them that they are unrelated? one about religion and one about marraige??? thanks
2007-11-26 11:35:26 · 11 answers · asked by cuteness 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
having seen a "wife exchange" in a church, by people in leadership positions, i'd say there is either no correlation, or perhaps even that christian-christian marriages are less stable than others.
2007-11-26 12:38:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think our happiness hinges on religion. I'm an Agnostic Pagan and he's basically Atheist. We make no decisions based on religion.
Now the radicals... hmmmm. That's a different story all right! I can see how couples who do share a religion (any religion) would be happier, as they have a common interest.
2007-11-26 11:45:23 · answer #2 · answered by Rapunzel XVIII 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If anything, a religion would be a common ground between the two. A way of unifying them. That's why you see so many marriages with people of the same religion that probably would never work otherwise.
2007-11-26 11:44:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be too broad
You may want to narrow it to how do two married people of similar religious beliefs and similar religious zeal relate to each other spiritually?
Because there are lots of marriages with mixed faiths or one has faith & the other does not & this would be a lot to define in one simple research paper.
2007-11-26 11:44:03 · answer #4 · answered by YesIDid 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I disagree with your hypothesis. I know plenty of atheists which much happier marriages than christians - my own included. My parents have been married 40 years, both are christian, and stayed together because they felt it correct because of us kids according to their beliefs. They are miserable.
On the other hand, I'm an atheist married to a christian, religion doesn't play a part in our marriage and we are going strong.
2007-11-26 11:50:24 · answer #5 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God made man (male and female) and the first man was lonely after he saw all the animals with their mates and felt he was alone. He just wasn't in touch with his female pole inside himself. So God put this ole boy to sleep and took his heart, his female pole/aspect/portion out of him and put it in a beautiful form in his face so he could get in touch with his heart and not feel lonely. Now, WE, find someone who can get in agreement with our heart if we are a woman or in agreement with our head, if we are a man and we come together (as God intended) in a covenant union and it's called marriage. Marriage is the male and female aspect joining in agreement to live a life God intends.
If marriage isn't about this, a three-fold cord with God between a man and woman, it isn't true marriage. God cannot be accomplished in the fullest sense without God being at the top of a triangle connection.
There are other types of arrangements agreements and connections between men and women, and even same-sex people, but marriage is: God, man, woman in covenant to live in union, in love, in peace, in harmony and to "be fruitful and multiply".
I don't call it religion'; it is just God's way for men and women who want a family or not. God blesses this union and the children born from this covenant union are blessed. Otherwise, God has no covenant of blessing for children born outside this arrangement that HE created.
2007-11-26 12:11:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 06:43:07 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The divorce rate in america is over 50% The divorce rate between Christians who pray together every night is 3%.
Marriages where both partners are equally yoked are happier.
2007-11-26 11:39:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I'm not sure about the statistics. My wife and I are very happy, and we're Catholic. Part of it has to do with the fact that we make every disagreement a prayer to Jesus to work in us so as to make us a better model of His relationship with His Church.
2007-11-26 11:45:11 · answer #9 · answered by delsydebothom 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know several people who are in miserable marriages but will not get divorced because of their religious beliefs...
2007-11-26 11:38:52 · answer #10 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋