Then Most People Who Get Married ARE L-I-A-R-S!?!?
139180
What are you so bitter about??
960061
yep... Being married means you get inlaws. Luckily for me, mine are great!
848695
Two people who willfully choose to join themselves in a committed relationship and who plan to stick it out through the good times and bad times, come hell or high water.\n\nSince this is the LGBT forum, I will add this. I am really angry about all the hoopla about gay marriage going on in my country (US) right now. So many people keep saying marriage is a one man + one woman only affair, but the fact of the matter is that marriage, at least in the US, is a LEGAL MATTER. If you choose to have a religious ceremony, it isn't legal until you get the marriage license issued by the state. Since it's a legal contract, I find it obscene that anyone wants to legislate that it can only be between a man and a woman. If marriage was simply a religious affair, then I would say it was up to the religious leaders of that faith to say who can and who cannot be married, but I find it repugnant that some people are not allowed to enter into a binding legal agreement simply because they happen to be of the same sex. The simple fact that I have two X chromosomes, and my partner is an XY gives us, automatically, all sorts of rights and privileges that are denied to other couples because they are the same sex. I am weary of people saying, "well, they can go to an attorney and make sure that they inherit each other's stuff, and they can go to an attorney and legally adopt each other's kids, and they can go to an attorney and give each other medical power of attorney, and they can go to an attorney..." because all of that stuff was just given to me and my husband when we married. No one in a committed relationship should have to spend thousands of dollars in legal fees getting their ducks in a row so that when something happens to one of them they can end up with a rotten judge in court and have it overturned in favor of "next of kin", who are, sadly, not always mindful of what their dearly departed would have wanted. It's all just offensive to me. \n\nOkay, sorry for the outburst. I will put my soapbox away now.
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I hate people like that, dammit. Well, I think it's funny that opposite sex marriages are held up to the norm when heterosexuals aren't exactly doing well on the marriage floor. What is there left to ruin when most couples divorce these days?\n\nAnd also, what do they mean we need more people to reproduce, if 1/100 people are gay, that leaves 99 people to add to a 6 billion, plus population.
260166
when you are married.
296320
of course they date and marry ordinary people ! ...  they do of course date and marry alot among  themselves since they are often around others in their field of work .... but  I think it  can work alot better with a person not in the same field since there wouldn't be  the   same amount of competition and need for  the spotlight
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From what I have seen from the people around me, and from personal experience people marry, these days, for all the wrong reasons. One of the biggest mistakes people make when they get married is that they start to PLAY marriage as soon as the paperwork gets signed. Instead of keeping things the same way as they were before marriage, they fall prey to the things they've heard about being married. Then they start to use phrases like," you're the wife you're suppose to do that, or be able to. Or, you're the husband you have to do this or that. In today's society many people, not just in marriages, but also in many aspects of life, people are compromising. People are settling with something that they really don't want. So they end up keeping things just as long as they can tolerate it, then they kick it to the curb. Many people are in what I refer to as (disposable relationships).
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Across countries and cities and age groups, both the spouses are spending a meagre 4 hours awake together and the rest 12 hours away from each other in a world filled with temptation and "easy" access.\n\nThis eventually leads them to try extra marrital affairs with people working with them, people they meet in travel, people they talk online. \n\nSadly this number is on the rise and rising fast. Probably they hold no respect or committment to the marriage they are in, but merely satisfy their physical needs.\n\nYes, such relationships are not merely common, its rampant..\n\n.:Fishie:.
420030
people get married because they are gambling on a feeling lasting.  the thing is a crap shoot at best. about 50% of marriages end in divorce, and most of them end bad.  But, if it's a good marriage it's better than anything immaginable.
757030
I think that as long as 2 people love each other and are happy together then why not get married. Theirs lots of man / women marrieges that suck and fail ( and Im shure theirs gay ones to ) so who cares who the 2 people are as long as it works
761433
In some cases, you are right but mostly, they get married because they are in love
538212
Why not?  People complain it is against God.  so those who feel that way should decline wedding invitations from gays.  MAN makes these rules and uses God as an excuse.  There are religions where a man can have many wives; do you  hear anyone complaining?  Anyway marriage does not have to be a religious ceremony.  People get married every day by a Justice of the Peace, a Mayor, even a ship's captain.  atheists get married.  what's the big deal?   so all the people who think this is a sin, would leave the "sinners" alone,  after all isn't it their God's job to judge them?  and to "punish".  They do believe their God gave them "free will" don't they?
1140244
Marriage is more of a legal issue than it is a religious one.  While many people do get married through a church of whatever their particular religion is, the church in no way makes the marriage official in the eyes of society, just in the eyes of the church.  What really makes you married is the certificate that you get from the state when you tell them you're getting married and go through the whole paperwork thing.
438043
Those that have kids first...feel they HAVE to get married, while those that get married first, then have kids...actually WANTED to get married....
748565
Marriage is way over rated.
833932
Only if you decide to marry!
851401
cause people are into the easy way out, quick fixes ect ect most people these days dont take being married seriously enough so they end up calling it quits after only a few years.  its not about them being young, its about how mature they are as a couple and how much they love eachother. also its really hard just starting out money is usually tight so its easy to fight.