When marriage was first aggreed to be an institution for life, the average person could expect to live for thirty or so years. Now that people are living longer, are we stretching the limits of an archaec institution?
212475
No, I don't think marriage is too long.  Marriage changes as the years go by.  At first, it's sex then children then sex again.  By the time you have raised your children marriage moves into this really great sweet friendship with someone who knows you completely.  The sex gets better as well.  To me it just keeps getting better and better.  The kind of intimacy that comes with marriage is so precious, and the longer you are married the greater that intimacy grows.  I don't know why anyone would want to start over with a new spouse.
202751
I don't think that marriage will be so important as it is nowadays, and even nowadays the importance has dwindled down. Less people are eager to get married, and less women want to have children. So, in the next 20-25 years I think that the birth rate will have significantly gone down, and so will the marriage rate. Maybe more dads will be staying home and taking care of the kids, while moms will be the ones bringing home the bread.
341289
well........it changes from person to person. It must be that u shud be mature enough to understand the seriousness of this instituiton. But, still most marry when they are around 25-30, coz mostly they just set up their carriers first and then think of a marriage. Hope u got it dear.
335730
I think that such numbers do not exist even for animals, which surround us now. Because full mortality data are needed, date of birth and date of death of every individual.\n\nMost literature indicate only maximal life span (humans 122) for animals: elephants about 78, penguins about 20, musk-ox about 24, some whales more than 200 years.\n\nI guess, mamoths lived about 40 years in average, but maximum age could be 90 years.
567132
No, but it happens, love/marriage gets old, just keep in mind it might happen to everyone.
449861
i think we can only stay alive til we're 100.  my friend said that her grandma is 106 but i think she's lying. but if you stay healthy u can live up to 102 probably.  the meaning of life is to enjoy and get loved.
101858
Ready? Love is evolution, bio/chemical and selfish. Evolution: Because our need to procreate is still as strong as it was 10,000 years ago. But now, instead of having babies every time, it's down to sexual impulse. Doesn't the average marriage usually end after 4 years? Think about it. That's just long enough to have a child, and keep together long enough to raise it to a manageable level before one or both move on. Bio/Chem: When you first fall in love, that feeling you get? It's a rush of hormones called "Dopamine". The same chemicles released when you eat your favorite foods. Selish: Why do you marry? Because the person you say "I Do" to is the only person you've been able to find after a while of searching who is as close to what you've always wanted and you intend to keep them for the emotions they make you feel. Selfish. Selfserving. Marriage isn't natural.
117181
The evidence is that people were doing all kinds of ceremonies very far back in time, like there are burials dated well back into the Stone Age.  If they did burials, and they did, they did pretty much the whole gamut of ceremony: crownings and inductions and religious things, and weddings.  So it would be hard to find out when the "first" one was - 30, 50, 75, 100 thousand years is a loooong time.
324606
We have one birthday- each year of our lives we Celebrate that day- to honor our life and birth in years-\n\nThe AVERAGE life expectancy in the USA is 77 yrs- of course some have much shorter lives, and some have much longer.
157871
Dont rush into anything forever is a long time. the romantic notion of marriage is great but the reality is often very different.
58361
4. A younger one every 8 years. There are man living such that they marry a younger women at least every 10 years. I think this is disgusting. \nMonogamy is a must. (i think marrried man with girlfriends are also disgusting). sorry.\nOne husband is enough for me.
255227
I used to believe it was quite archaic. I always believed in love, and considered it the prime motivaton for marriage. I believed it was the couples sole decision, and no other enity should be involved.  However, as time progessed, my feelings have changed.  In AMERICA, the divorce rate is 50%.  Somethings wrong with the system. I'm rethinking the idea of planned marriages.  They seem to last quite a bit longer.
239419
Not sure on that one.  Evolutionists say man must continue to evolve as we have over the years.  And when the secret of the 'aging' gene is discovered, maybe natural death will be a thing of the past, who knows...\n\nBut I don't subscribe to any of that.
52560
I think that it is possible that a human being can spend their life without a partner, but it is not the normal thing to do because we evolved as social creatures.  I would not say that people are swayed or cave into peer pressure to partner, but that it is against our nature to be alone, and it is impossible to live from birth without some sort of partner because we are not born self-sufficient.  Most people who spend their lives alone do so because they have suffered some sort of trauma, or they have mental health issues.
523097
perhaps. live and let live should be the standard. somehow people forget all about it though.
97031
Abso-posi-lu-tively life into years!\nIf I could have left this world 8 years ago, I would have been satisfied at the time of my death.\nNow I am getting older and I have not been able to experience the "live and let live happily" side due to legal vs. moral argument.\nI am under authorative thumb now from standing for my beliefs and not allowed to live freely. It has added years to my life, but would gladly trade the years for life.\n\nHopefully, the Lord has a plan in my coming years to bring back the life. Atleast I will have eternal life and that, my friend, makes it worth living.
20038
The institution of marriage was created around property rights including the rights of inheritance. \n\nToday we have two different institutions that are called marriage - one a civil marriage which is about the property rights and a religious marriage - which is a part of an individuals faith/morality. Civil marriage should be available to anyone who wants to enter into the legal contract. Religious marriage should be left up to the faith of the church (not the government).