Marriage vs. Just Living Together

Hey everyone. I have to write a paper on the ethics of Marriage for school and you all could be a big help. If you are currently living with someone, please give the reasons why you are not going to get married or the reasons why you plan on getting married. Please also include your age as well.
For you single people, you can also give your opinions. State the reasons why you would want to get married or just decide to live together with someone. Thanks in advance to everyone! I greatly appreciate your future feed back.

(note: if wish to remain confidential you can always just pm me. Thank you)

We choose just to live together dont see the difference between that and be married, in Norway we have the same rights as married couples so what the deal of getting married is beyond me.

Same over here, there's no "need" to get married, because in the eyes of the law you become common law husband/wife without the certificate after spending a certain amount of time living together.

However, me and Mrs.MM decided to do it as a symbol of our commitment to each other. That and we had a nice holiday to have the wedding, and we had a cracking piss up when we got back to celebrate.

I would strongly recommend living together for three or four months if possible before getting married. That way, it's an easier out if it's not going to work.

I've done both twice and regretted it so I dont think it matters either way!

they gave people who live together the same rights as married people here a few years back. personaly I don't see the fuss about it except you can throw ONE HELL OF A PARTY 😄

You dont have to get married for party you could have a "We're celebrating our non-marriage party"!

I only celebrate things that are important.

Like opening time at my local. 🍺

I've never been married. I have lived with one of my boyfriends and that only lasted about six months before we simply couldn't handle it anymore.

As far as getting married, I might at some point in the future. That is, of course, if it's ever legal for me to do so in this country.

No Baylin idd I don't have to but ppl will spend a bigger effort in getting you gifts and being able to come to your party if it is connected to an actual wedding (atleast in my family)

gifts 😖hifty:

idd 😄

I dont need gifts there's a enough junk in my house what with the wife and kids...

I like the idea of marriage under the law. Something happens to me and my wife becomes a widow she has to collect my insurance. If we are only living together life insurance will not cover it anything. So for me marriage under the law is important.

Couples should live together AT LEAST five years before getting married. Of course that offers no guarantee but at least you can learn a bit more about the other person than marrying after a 'whirlwind' romance.

Also, people should date around, do the crappy bar scene, the crappy club scene, all that crappy crap and get all that running & playing out of their system before even considering settling down with one person.

Spoken from true experience, that.

I disagree on your second point gundark 😛

Originally posted by Gundark
Couples should live together AT LEAST five years before getting married. Of course that offers no guarantee but at least you can learn a bit more about the other person than marrying after a 'whirlwind' romance.

Also, people should date around, do the crappy bar scene, the crappy club scene, all that crappy crap and get all that running & playing out of their system before even considering settling down with one person.

Spoken from true experience, that.

Indeed!

I learnt that lesson the hard way from my first marriage.

Then we would be 28 😆
I was planning to work on children at that age if Fire agrees.

Put that tongue back in fire, before I grab it and wrap it around your neck.

You're scared now, aren't ya ?

Hehehe. 😄

Well now it wouldn't be any fun if we agreed on everything, right ?

Originally posted by Storm
Then we would be 28 😆
I was planning to work on children at that age if Fire agrees.

28 is a good age to have trolls, i mean children. 🙂