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This is a tough question; for a while I had preached about how marriage was a major complication between love and law. But I also feel that when you do meet that right person, you can't help but think of the future and sharing that moment with someone either. I guess overall I would persue a commonlaw marriage. I feel marriages and weddings seem like big sacrifice to prove their love to someone, but it's really just staying with the person and having the same love and vibrations.
Well said, and you make some valid points. I think it has become easier for some people not to be pressured to go through the religious ceremony, and just shack up. So when the relationship is over, there's no need to bring the court into it.
Well, it's not for everyone. My hubby and I have been doing just fine without it for 25 years but married this year. We were told that was the best way to go for our visa applications, so you could say it's a marriage of convenience.
Nothing else has changed, I didn't grow a hunchback and he still still does the dishes if I cook. Worked out well really.
I never said all marriages are healthy, but a society that values marriage and two parents who are faithful to one another will produce kids who are more emotionally healthy and less likely to take risks such as promiscuous sex or to turn to drugs or gangs to find what is lacking in their home life.
A ring doesn’t equal a chastity belt. Married people are unfaithful too.
Marriage in the civil sense is a scam anyway; how assinine is it that the government penalizes married couples for not having kids when they will actually be a less of a burden on society?
You got a point there. I don't think society should pressure childfree couples to pay for something they're never going to have responsibility for.
Marriage started it's long decline when it became more about the wedding and impressing one's peers than finding an appropriate person to share your life with. Basically, women changed their tastes in men and most marriages didn't last.
Not coincidentally, this was also the start in the decline in the percentage of young men pursuing an education/solid career and developing themselves, in other ways to be good husbands.
Basic economics - supply and demand - at work.
Feminism is the biggest cause to why there's so many divorces.
A dietitian was addressing a large audience in Chicago:
"The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can be disastrous to some and none of us realize the long term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have eaten or will eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?"
A 75 year old man in the front row stood up and said, "Wedding cake."
Can't say I'm surprised. As time goes by the number who want to get married will just continue to drop. It's a highly flawed idea that is less and less compatible with modern life. And don't get me started on the gov't having their hands in it...that right there dooms it.
Hey MODS, can you change the thread title please!? It gives no hint as to what the thread is about.
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