Post by Toasted Cheese on Jul 19, 2018 8:31:05 GMT
For some people, it’s due to spiritual reasons. For other people, it’s due to love and marriage represents that love to each other. For other people... it’s purely for conveniences, such as those young foreign women that marry those older rich men that they claim they love, or to get visas, or to get military benefits, or just any kind of benefits that you would get if you were married. Another point to marriage is cultural norms. I know no one likes comformity, even though many who dont like it follow it.But, that’s just how life is. When you fall in love, the norm is to get married. But, now that we have the most diversity that we have ever have had, we can literally do anything and be accept within some sort of subgroup. So, that’s good.
Marriage is a union of one thing\s to another. All cultures have unions\marriages and it is a timeworn tradition. It might appear relevant to some, but the obvious reason for couples wanting to get married, is usually for the procreation of children and to start a family. One would have to also define what these abstract and intangible spiritual reasons are, or what exactly love is or represents, if marrying for these reasons. Personally, I think these could be conceived as pretty shallow reasons and it could also be about fulfilling ones need for self-gratification. People also fall in and out of what we refer to as love for each other. It is always tragic where children are concerned and marriages break up when they are young especially. If one wants to endorse and condone marriage as a useful societal construct, ultimately, it should be undertaken as a 'commitment' to one another due to the vows taken and isn't that supposed to be for a lifetime?
If a marriage does work for a lifetime, then I suppose there is still some relevance to it. I don't know what the worldwide stats are today, but are more marriages lasting, than what breakups are?