What is it like to be married ?

stewartcs

I feel your pain, I stuck it out with my first wife for that same reason. In the end, the money isn't worth it!

wolram

After careful consideration i think i am to far gone, i am sure i would not have the patience or will power to commit to a life long partnership.

turbo

My wife and I were living in a low-rent apartment using thrift-shop furniture and just scraping by when we got married. We were both unemployed at the time because the mill we worked at shut down, and the construction season hadn't started back up (winter). Our pre-nup would have been hilarious, like "If we break up, I get the dented Revere-Ware pot with the lid that doesn't match and the knife with the replaced wooden grip, and you get the electric fry-pan and the aluminum 2-cup percolator." Seriously, I owned clothes, an old motorcycle (no car), some hand-me-down pots and pans and kitchen utensils, some blankets and sheets, a modest stereo, some albums, and a guitar. If I had owned a car, my possessions could have fit in the back seat, easy.

I had to ask her to marry me quite a few times over the course of months before she said "yes". I'm glad she did. We both worked hard and took care of each other, and saved our money for things that were necessary. The first big thing I bought her (her birthday after we were married) was a Moosehead Maple kitchen table and a set of four matching chairs. After 32 years, I refinished the table top this summer. Should be good for another 32 years.

Lisa!

Are you sure that you'd have a long life , then? I mean studies show that married men live longer .But the're more willing to die

wolram

It may not be a long life but it will be a reasonably contented one, cockney slang for wife is trouble and strife.

Jimmy Snyder

Don't call her my first wife. It'll go hard on the crockery.

Chronos

You are a curse upon divorce attorneys, Evo. I don't need to live with anyone for much more than a week to figure out whether or not the relationship has long term potential. Your first encounter of the 'third kind' usually tells you everything you need to know about your prospective mate. Is he/she genuinely interested, or merely climbing a mountain?

Ivan Seeking

Tsu and I basically moved in together after the first date, but we waited a few years before making it official. My parents - married over 50 years - fell in love at first sight.

Monique

My boyfriend and I also moved into the same apartment within two months of dating. Now we've been living together for 3 years. Marriage is not something we really think about, we both don't like the whole theater that comes along with organizing it, only in case of a baby would I feel obliged to get married.

Urvabara

Hi!

I am 23 years old science nerd. I haven't ever even kissed anyone.

Well, back to studying some physics... -->

wolram

Hmmm, and i collect hens teeth.

Urvabara

And I have thought that hens do not have teeth.

wolram

The old English game chicken does, it allso lays blue shelled eggs, some think it is a throw back to the dino age.

Artaxerxes

I think it's great that people stick together if they like it. I also think it's a great idea that they announce this by some ceremony, named e.g. marriage, to let the world know that they want to be considered as a union in social life and that the shop is closed for new relationships of the amorous kind.
But I don't think its a great idea that this ceremony should have any legal consequences. If the parties think there is a need for legal protection of their economic interests they should write a contract.
With the present status of marriage the consequences may be absurd if e.g. a wealthy man has married a penniless woman and they divorce after a short time.
You may consider what happened to the ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and ex-model Heather Mills.

Lisa!

Well I'm pretty sure that you know each other quite well before dating!

cevdet.erturk

I was surpised to see the users discussing social topics (I have just recognized it), but I appreciate that. By the way this is the most clicked topic I guess (: Anyways...

Everybody has a dream about the ideal love or the love in the movies...

Somebody make the dream reality (this rate is too small). This type of people finds the real love and never let it go... For them, marriage is not important... The importance is being together or sticking each other...

The other part of people can never make the dream reality (this rate is quiete big). They marry with someone who they supposed that they found real love. Then, the reality occurs. Love? Lost out of blue! Then, the marriage finishes. After that, they begin to search for the real one. Or, they die without tasting a real love. OR, they start a topic for searching the defition of marriage and married couples' situations to avoid their problems (:

I mean, the real love makes u blind and it never lets u ask anything about its future...

Monique

Why? You can meet someone out of the blue and start dating