What is the meaning of marriage to you? Does the concept have any significance?
What is the meaning of marriage to you? If you've not been married do you want to be or do you not care?
I haven't been married and see no drive/desire to be as to be married is a sham institution. The only example I have to go on is my own parents who never lived happily and divorced when I was 12. I've rejected the concept ever since. Just like smoking (since my mum was a chronic smoker for much of the time I was a kid).
I don't understand why women are so desirous of being proposed to (or in rare cases doing the proposing) and having the other person say 'yes'. I wonder how many relationships break up because the other person says 'no'. 8-)
I realise that marriage has two parallel meanings - the religious one and the basic common law contractural one - and some people subscribe to both while some only subscribe to one (generally the common law one ignoring or leaving out the religious aspect).
Whether either meaning has more weight (or any) is probably a very personal thing and one of the key areas any potential couple has to come to agreement on right from the start as that would set the colour/direction/angle/pitch/whatever of the way they want to build the foundation for their life going foward. Or end up like so called strict christian couples such as Bailey Mcpherson and her hubby (bmcpher on social media) - ewww so cringeworthy!
I haven't been married and see no drive/desire to be as to be married is a sham institution. The only example I have to go on is my own parents who never lived happily and divorced when I was 12. I've rejected the concept ever since. Just like smoking (since my mum was a chronic smoker for much of the time I was a kid).
I don't understand why women are so desirous of being proposed to (or in rare cases doing the proposing) and having the other person say 'yes'. I wonder how many relationships break up because the other person says 'no'. 8-)
I realise that marriage has two parallel meanings - the religious one and the basic common law contractural one - and some people subscribe to both while some only subscribe to one (generally the common law one ignoring or leaving out the religious aspect).
Whether either meaning has more weight (or any) is probably a very personal thing and one of the key areas any potential couple has to come to agreement on right from the start as that would set the colour/direction/angle/pitch/whatever of the way they want to build the foundation for their life going foward. Or end up like so called strict christian couples such as Bailey Mcpherson and her hubby (bmcpher on social media) - ewww so cringeworthy!
