What is marriage to you?

No, this is not true. Historically, marriage was almost exclusively about property (or power, politics etc.) and not about love. Most marriages were arranged. "Romantic" marriages are rather recent invention.

 

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It is simply a legal and financial union in the eyes of the state unmarried lovers are as much in love as are married people. Marriage is just more convenient for the couples in a financial stand point

 

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I agree entirely with that. I have a hard time understanding why marriage is such a hard step for a couple if they have been living together for a substantial amount of time. I keep thinking of people saying, "its a big step, are you ready for it?" It's only a big step because of the social implications that are commonly associated with marriage...if not always associated with marriage. Maybe people are so sexually driven and unsure of their fidelity towards the person they supposedly truly love, they need something to bind them and remind them of their 'love.'

I see marraige as an entirely legal thing. Why do you need a contract to 'show your love?'

But forms of marriage have been apart of civilazation for the longest time, so there must be some common justification for societies to advocate marriage. Whether that justification comes from our carnal desires to be unloyal or if it's part of a more complicated, social intwinement of values and doctrine is something I wonder about too.

My family nor I is religious, and I can't relate to the religious spin/pressure towards marriage.

 

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