Marriage?

MsFrisby · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:16 am Post subject: Marriage?

Jug's thread about how to pop the question to his girlfriend got me wondering about how people on the forum view marriage.

Feel free to say why you picked the option you did.
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Feiticeira · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1791

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11094 Location: PDX

I like marriage in some ways, but if it was all the same to my partner I could be just as happy being in a long-term, committed relationship. Still, the legal angle would change as I got older, or if we had kids. Power of attorney and next of kin status would be important.
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rm · Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 4073

I really have no opinion on the matter at all.
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Uncle Taylorbell · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3191 Location: Northern England

I am a happy, happy married person. The fact that I haven't seen my fat fucking psycho ginger lesbian wife for five years has been a major contributory factor in my happiness.

Everyone should try sham marriage at least once.

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11094 Location: PDX

Oh, she's a ginger? Is it true they don't have a soul?
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Celaeno · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3037 Location: Kzoo

Last weekend a guy offered me $10,000 to marry him for two years. He's from Argentina. I passed.

I've always imagined myself getting married some day, but most of my closest friends have told me that they can't see it. When I ask why, they can't really explain themselves. They say things like, "Well, it's just a feeling I have."

I'm okay with not getting married, but I'd like a long-term, committed relationship, thanks. Oh, and if I'm going to have kids, I'd like to do it within a marriage.

Xilonen · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 465 Location: Bellingham, WA

i've gotten more and more used to the idea of marriage over the years. i used to think i wouldn't put up with anyone long enough, but i figure i am in fact capable of that now. Razz

mostly it just makes it easier legally, and it's something at least some of my important family members would expect, and it still seems like somehow a greater commitment than just dating or living together because there's no minimum term like a lease agreement or something. it just seems like a decision made entirely with the future in mind instead of just the present.

Feiticeira · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1791

Xilonen · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 465 Location: Bellingham, WA

aw, you found my sly proposal in my hypothetical! damnit, you weren't supposed to see that!

Xilonen · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 465 Location: Bellingham, WA

anyway, john, that was obviously intended for you. i don't have a shrine in my closet to russ, now do i?

CTrees · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3772

I was engaged at one point.

I got over it.

I definitely see myself ending up married sometime in the future.

flyingsquirrel · Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 23 Location: ATX

i have friends who, in HIGH SCHOOL, are getting engaged and married.

dear lord. personally, can't think about it yet.
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CTrees · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3772

It's getting less common now, but that didn't use to be unusual at all.

flyingsquirrel · Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 23 Location: ATX

well thats because they had half the life expectancy and women didnt have seperate life tracks.
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