ALT-24 Best Reasons to Marry
When asked what are the best reasons to marry, most people will automatically answer, "Because you are in love." But should we doubt this assumption of it being the only reason to get married? Are there not more reasons to get married than just being in love? Of course there are. Otherwise, with the acceptance of living together being almost universal, and you can do that when in love, why do around sixty percent of couples still choose marriage?
1. Love. This is still probably the best reason for getting married. If there is not that essential romantic and emotional feeling one for another there would be no point in being joined in wedlock as no common ground will exist.
2. Companionship, In many surveys and interviews that have been conducted on the issue of marriage, often it is found that companionship is an almost, if not equally important reason for marriage. In addition to a lover, married people see their partner as a friend and confidant and someone who will accompany them as they journey through the coming years. Most of us enjoy company and marriage is seen as a way of achieving that in a more connected environment.
3. Starting a family. Despite the fact the stigma that use to attach to a child born out of wedlock has largely been eradicated, there are still many, many people who feel that the act of marriage gives children a safe and secure environment to grow up in. Marriage provides a structure that is more easily understood by children than "co-habitation." Therefore couples who are about to start a family will often make a reasoned choice to ensure security for their offspring.
4. To share and commit. As a relationship develops, there often comes a point when the couple will want to share more closely with each other, be this emotionally or physically. They feel the desire to have a closer link between them, a wanting to become one with each other. Similarly, there is a desire to commit to the other person and to make the statement that says I want to share my life, my dreams and my desires with you, and want you to share yours with me. It is a journey into the future that they want to make hand in hand and with hearts joined.
6. Culture. If a person's religious or cultural make-up is such that they would either feel uncomfortable, or morally uneasy about entering into a sexual or living together scenario, then, as long as their partner has the same values, marriage is often entered into for cultural reasons. To deny your own values is not a good basis for a relationship.
Despite the storms that have raged over marriage in the last half a century, and the numbers of wedlock's that have ended as wreck's on the shores of modern life, such is the resilience and strength of the good reasons for making a marriage commitment driven by love, that it still draws couples into its fold.
