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Some people don't believe in marraige because they believe it contradicts our natural attractions to others. If it's wrong to be attracted to someone else besides your spouse, then theoretically you shouldn't be married. Is there anyone who can honestly say they aren't attracted to anyone else beside their spouse? Even a little? Even if it doesn't nearly amount to the attraction you have for your spouse?
Do you think happy life-long marraiges will become a rarer thing in the future? Today there are many divorces, unlike decades before.
Why do or don't you believe in marraige?
by the way I am in love with someone if you're wondering
I wouldn't say I don't believe in it anymore, but am afraid of it after my divorce. My ex-wife wasn't committed to marriage and it scares me to think I could make the same mistake again. After 7 years, you think you know someone, but you never really do.
I'm not quite sure if I'd marry again. I'm not having any more kids. So..I don't know. Right now, I don't think so. My husband really changed once we married and I don't know if I want to go through that again. I guess it really depends on if I find the person for me. But I wouldn't be opposed to just living together.
I'm not quite sure if I'd marry again. I'm not having any more kids. So..I don't know. Right now, I don't think so. My husband really changed once we married and I don't know if I want to go through that again. I guess it really depends on if I find the person for me. But I wouldn't be opposed to just living together.
I would rather just live together, but I want kids, and I don't want to have them outside of marriage. Guess I'm old fashioned that way.
Some people don't believe in marraige because they believe it contradicts our natural attractions to others. If it's wrong to be attracted to someone else besides your spouse, then theoretically you shouldn't be married. Is there anyone who can honestly say they aren't attracted to anyone else beside their spouse? Even a little? Even if it doesn't nearly amount to the attraction you have for your spouse?
Do you think happy life-long marraiges will become a rarer thing in the future? Today there are many divorces, unlike decades before.
Why do or don't you believe in marraige?
by the way I am in love with someone if you're wondering
As much as I hate to pull the age thing, you're 24 and I'm now 65. When I was your age I'd been married for two years, had emigrated to the US and the marriage was a disaster. I was really dumb even though I'd been self sufficient and supporting myself since I was 16. The failure of that marriage was mine alone. As was the second. The third was a whole different ball game.
Most don't realize how the whole concept of marriage came about (hint, St Paul) and most don't care anyway, especially in this day and age. The religious zealots quote their scriptures but have no clue as to the history of religion or how marriage fits in. Ask them if they're familiar with the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Gnostic Gospels and they'll clam up so tightly that your back teeth will grind.
You're in love and that's a wondrous state to be in. Enjoy it, revel in it, see where it goes, don't fuss and worry about what might be because you simply can't know. Good luck!
I absolutely am pro-marriage. It didn't work for me, but if I was younger, I wouldn't mind giving it another go. Not now though...my son is almost grown and I like not having to answer to anyone at this point in my life.
As much as I hate to pull the age thing, you're 24 and I'm now 65. When I was your age I'd been married for two years, had emigrated to the US and the marriage was a disaster. I was really dumb even though I'd been self sufficient and supporting myself since I was 16. The failure of that marriage was mine alone. As was the second. The third was a whole different ball game.
Most don't realize how the whole concept of marriage came about (hint, St Paul) and most don't care anyway, especially in this day and age. The religious zealots quote their scriptures but have no clue as to the history of religion or how marriage fits in. Ask them if they're familiar with the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Gnostic Gospels and they'll clam up so tightly that your back teeth will grind.
You're in love and that's a wondrous state to be in. Enjoy it, revel in it, see where it goes, don't fuss and worry about what might be because you simply can't know. Good luck!
The idea of marriage existed far before St. Paul. He may have turned it into something official, but scientists and psychologists agree that there were likely lifelong couples dating back to caveman times. With or without religion the idea of marriage would have eventually been established. (Sorry... I don't think religion has the right to claim they created marriage.)
I guess I kind of believe in marriage... as in it works for some and doesn't for others.
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