Poll: Do you want to get married?

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olicon

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As my pastor always said: There are 3 rings in marriage. An engagement ring, a wedding ring, and the suffeRING.

I want to get married. But I think I can say that only because I know I will never do anyway. (I have a severe problem finding a human being who is able to hang out with me, let alone being my partner in life).

Still though, I do want to get married. But if I do, I'm never having kids. No little bloodsuckers are going to make my wife fat, and I don't want anyone mooching off of my gaming funds either.
 

Rotting Corpse

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Honestly, I have never heard of a good reason to get married. There is nothing that people do in marriage that people do outside of it. You can have kids without being married, you can own a home and have joint bank accounts without being married, and there are plenty of companies out there now that let you select a significant other as the beneficiary of your company benefits instead of just a spouse.

Sure there are some slight tax benefits, but I don't see that as a good enough reason to tie yourself to someone forever with the risk that you'll end up spending thousands of dollars on divorce lawyer when if you were just living together one of you could just pack up and leave.

A marriage license is a business contract between two people. How does signing a contract make someone love you more? And if you are the half of that marriage that make more money (typically the man) why do you need to promise your money and property to someone in order for your love to be complete?

I like the idea of having a ceremony in which to people announce in front of their friends and family that you want to spend the rest of your life with someone. Announcing that you have finally decided that you have found the love of your life. That's a great idea, I just don't understand why you also need to go down to city hall and sign a contract saying so.

Why do people have to be married? Why can't two people who love each other just live together, raise a family, and be happy? Why do you need to sign a legal document to be in love?
 

Saelune

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Yes. How can I pass up getting to wear such a pretty dress?
But I view marriage more symbolic and all that. I would not be against a pre-nup though. I might get mad if it was suggested, but I try to never be 100% about ANYTHING, so Id understand.
 

TheTygerfire

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I very much want to get married. My boyfriend has made it clear what has to happen before he'll consider it, and I'll wait until those pre-requisites are met ^_^
 

Lullabye

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Good question......I honestly never considered it seriously before.
I don't know.
If I love them enough then sure, but that kind of commitment is kinda scary. Since to me it means confessing your 'true' love for someone, and though I don't mind polygamy or dating multiple people, I would personally be perfectly happy with just one great person.
But then if they betray you.....I dunno....
 

flaviok79

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I am married. The 1st thing that being married changed in my life is that it brought me a strange peace about my future. It calmed that part of my mind that kept wandering if I was ever going to love again or to be truly loved. It also gave me a lot of focus. All the energy I was spending chasing girls, I began devoting to improving my life. It worked.
To all my friend of this list who are not married, I tell this: Marriage starts as a romantic relationship, but it morphs into a very deep friendship/companionship thing. We really became a family. Now, she is my reference of family. Our small apartment is home, even though my folks live in a 1 apartment per floor building, and my bathroom there is almost as big as my whole suite here.
It is not about comfort, or privacy, anymore. Life transformed into a new proposal. I live to make us both happy, and the last thing I want to do is disappoint her.

In short: marriage, although it is not for everyone, can be an enriching experience.
It has its difficulties, but I much rather spend my life with a companion than alone.
And I leave you with a thought: When we are standing tall and everything is going fine in our lives, we tend to think of the idea of getting hitched as a bad move. But we all have our sick days, we all have days of sadness, moments of downs, rather than ups. In those moments, don?t you want to have someone who knows and love you by your side, helping you stand up again and move forward?
 

Sacman

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Yeah... it's not ny ultimate goal but whatever happens happens...
 

thylasos

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Not particularly. In a monogamous lifelong relationship? Yes. One unnescessarily sanctioned by state and/or religion? No.
 

theevilsanta

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I think the formal marriage granted to you by a church or the state or whatever is a joke. Well, at least it doesn't mean anything to me. I've told my fiance I'll love and be faithful and with her forever and she's said the same, and that's all that matters. I trust her, she trusts me.

But we are having a legal and religious marriage, not for us, for everyone else. A year of planning and one day of appeasing strangers at your wedding is all it costs to live a lifetime without thousands of small moments of awkwardness and a few potential big problems.

So yeah, I'm getting married. Though it doesn't mean sh*t to my fiance or me.
 

Tron-tonian

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I voted no.
but I think my wife would be more than a little upset if I got married again. :p

That, and on the off-chance this one goes bad, I can't see making a 3rd trip to the altar.
 

Zyxx

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If I found the right person, and our relationship developed to that point, then I'd happily marry. It's not really one of my life goals, though, and if it never happens, so be it. Solitude likely suits me better anyway.
 

CarpathianMuffin

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As it stands, marriage is sandwiched firmly between bathing with an electric eel and letting a parasitic lamprey suck out my large intestine at the bottom of the list of things to do in life.
Who knows, that'll probably change in a few decades when I've let the world do what it will to me.
 

Deadyawn

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Dr Snakeman said:
Reet72 said:
I'm not gonna get married. My father always said "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?".
Cookie for the quote!
Can I have a glass of orange juice with it?

If you don't get the significance of that statement, then you aren't qualified to be handing out cookies related to this topic.

So, yeah, I know what you're talking about. Gimme mah cookie!

As for the OP? One step at a time, man. I first have to shed my "chronically single" status and get a girlfriend. Then we'll see. But I answered in the affirmative for your poll, as it would be pretty nice to have a lifelong female counterpart to my extreme awesomeness.

_>

What?
If I die, I want you to have my orange juice...and my cookie...