Mawij
Marriage is great.
So is being single.
Both have almost entirely subjective value.
It doesn't matter which you prefer, or what life arrangement outside of those two options you choose, it likely only has value to yourself.
The only advice I would have on marriage is to take it as seriously as deciding to get a tattoo on your face. It's going to be part of your identity, part of who you are. It's a life altering decision. You can still get a job while married, but you get the idea.
Thing is, if marriage is something you think you need to get out of after a year or two, then in my opinion you don't "get it" and you really should never marry again until you've substantially grown as a person. People who marry and get divorced multiple times, why? Just don't get married.
If the high level of commitment is something you're capable of, the person you're with is someone who can truly last through 99% of relationship issues and shares the same fundamental values as you, and the label is important to you, get married. If one of those things isn't true, then it would be idiotic to get married. Even if you're mostly sure about all of them, don't get married. Be sure.
It's marriage, you don't HAVE to do it. If you're going to do it, at least be sure about it so you don't waste everyone's time celebrating the arbitrary and fake process the two of you are going through that essentially means next to nothing to you.
...Unless you had an open bar, then we'll call it even.
Last edited by Chill Cosby; 08-20-2014 at 11:20 AM.
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