What does "Marriage" mean to you? Do you think of it as something "Holy", or as a way of feeling closer and more committed in your relationship, or simply as a legal contract with no emotional or spiritual meaning? What's you current relationship status?
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Mr. Meaulnes
ANSWERS: 8
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I am Married. The act of marriage is nothing more than a way to publicly prove you are in a committed relationship.
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To me, it means nothing. It's nothing more than a legal document that details how much money it's going to end up costing to 'breakup'. I think just being together should be enough, but others disagree. I am in a relatioship, but not a marriage.
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Well when I think of marriage as being "Holy" I think of the first time I slept with someone. Technically in the Bible you are married to that person. Now days it is more of a legal document where marriage is just a commitment of each other.
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I am married. I view it as not much more than a legal contract. I think a lifetime commitment is a VERY special thing but I don't think it's all that important to have the papers to prove you love one another. My husband and I were committed to each other long beofre we got married, and getting married changed nothing, we just got some gifts out of it :D
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I'm single and I think marrage is just a higher form of higher commitment because if it was holy it would be a sin to cheat or break up.
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I think of it as the first two items you've listed -- something "holy" and a sign of committment. This is why I had a church wedding in front of friends and family. However, the government has added the legal contract definition to it, which allows a couple benefits not afforded to two people without the government approved license. This is unfair because I, my wife, my family, and my church congregation consider me married, but I am denied the license and, ergo, the benefits that others get whether they want them or not, be default of their opposite sex relationship. (...packing up soapbox for now...nothing more to see here...)
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To me marriage is saying to the whole world I love this person enough to give them all I have..heart and soul, and to be exclusively bound to that person through a Holy union. Now having said all that does it mean its going to last...NO. I wish I could say that is all it took to make it last. I am married now and everyday it is a struggle..some days are really good...but there are more bad days than good. Will it last...I am not sure. I want it to but am still trying to figure out what he wants. I do believe in the union of marriage..just not sure how much I believe in the union of he and I.
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Marriage is a joke in 2009 and getting worse. I am around a friend who works with weddings. I have heard of so many sad stories I don't know why people even make the effort to perform the show. I cannot understand how you make a vow with tears to promise endless love in front of family and friends and GOD only to break it down the road.
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