ALT-32 Best Reasons to Marry
I once heard someone say "don't marry the one you can live with, marry the one you cant live without" which i think sums up marriage perfectly. The best possible reason to marry someone is quite simply because you don't want to you live your life without them. You want the world to recognize your commitment to that one special person. Here are some of the best reasons to get married in todays society.
1)You love the person your with and you want to solidify that love with marriage. Yes love isn't the only reason to marry someone but without love a marriage will never work. Love is quite possibly the most important ingredient in any relationship, so if your planning to spend your life with the one person its almost certain that you'll need to be deeply in love with them.
2)To make a commitment to another. You simply want to be with that person for life, knowing their flaws and faults. You accept them as they are and you want to show the world that that this is the person who has captured your heart. You want to show the world your ready to dedicate your life to making this one person happy.
3)Even in todays society its not uncommon for many to get married to start a family. Perhaps you and your other half have been together for a long while and you feel marriage is the best possible environment to raise a family. You want your children to feel secure and you feel that in order to provide that security , you feel your relationship has to move onto the next step.This is not to say you get married strictly for your children's sake. You must be ready within your relationship to take the next step otherwise not only will the marriage suffer but so will the children.
4)You want to celebrate your relationship with your family and friends . Yes it sounds simple but sometimes its just nice to stand in front of your family and friends and say "yes this is the person i chose to spend my life with".
5)You feel its just natural progression in your relationship to move onto the next step.You've been together a while, perhaps even lived with your spouse and now you feel its time to move onto the next stage of your life with that person. It just seems like the next logical step in the relationship.
Then again there are always reasons why you shouldn't get married.
1)You should never get married just to feel secure within the relationship. If you don't feel secure in a relationship before marriage what makes you think you'll be secure afterwords?
2)You've heard of those people who make deals with their friends that when they reach certain age if they still haven't married , they get together and get hitched?Yes ,marrying someone to avoid being alone is a crazy idea. I once read that its "better to be left on the shelf , rather than spend your whole life in wrong cupboard". Such a simple quote but with so much meaning. Don't force yourself to marry your best friend so you'll both have companionship. Ask yourself...." did you ever consider them as husband or even boyfriend material before you made this deal?". No you didn't otherwise you would have been with them long before now.
3)You just want a big white wedding. Yes big weddings are fabulous. But the wedding is for one day, the marriage is for life.
4)On the rebound. Maybe you've been divorced before and you want a new marriage just to prove to yourself you can still do it. You do it to prove to the world you found new love and your OK. Getting married to prove your self worth never works.
Choosing to marry your partner can be a wonderful experience. Your both beginning a whole new journey together starting with those vows you take and it can be a magical one. If done for the right reasons. So now i know when i get married it'll be for the right reasons. Can you say the same?
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