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Originally posted by Superfraggle+Dec 20 2004, 01:24 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Superfraggle @ Dec 20 2004, 01:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Sammie@Dec 20 2004, 02:10 AM
Cynical view of marriage? I would prefer to think I'm being realistic. Ask yourself this question, "How far am I prepared to go to make this relationship work?" Certainly there are benefits to being married or it would be worth making a commitment in the first place. The whole point of getting married is to make a commitment to forming a family unit for the protection of the children that may arrive. If you don't want children, why bother getting married?
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Well I've not yet met the lucky lady for whom I'm prepared to marry, but I'm young yet.
. While I certainly believe that they are out there, I am even more sure that there is no woman for which I would ever be prepared to give up EVERYTHING. I see the purpose marriage as more a commitment to be with this one person for the rest of your life than preparation for the raising of a child. If you don't want children why bother being married? Because you love the person you are with and never want to leave them. Marriage is a means of expressing this. The benefits you get from the government don't hurt either. :P .
You can call me selfish if you want, but all that I am is expressed in the things that I do and if I have to sacrifice that for a marriage, I would no longer be able to be me. In the Christian/Catholic religions, one of the most sacred rights we have, by my understanding of things anyways, is the right to free will. I don't see how what is supposed to be one of the most sacred of acts (marriage) could be meant to take that away. [/b][/quote]
And this is the problem. You haven't found that special someone so YOU THINK that you wouldn't do this or do that.......
It's like most of us say that if they won 5 mil jackpot they would invest it and live of the interest accumulated instead of spending a big chunk of it first. Problem is, untill you do win orfind that special someone you have no clue what that's gonna do to you. Money and love have strange ways of changing people, that's a fact.
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