From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ber Newsgroups: net.singles Title: Re: Re: more questions - (nf) Article-I.D.: harpo.1028 Posted: Thu Sep 9 00:16:57 1982 Received: Thu Sep 9 03:35:31 1982 #R:rmas70:-20100:harpo:19700001:000:955 harpo!ber Sep 9 00:02:00 1982 Marriage is a commitment. A legal one at that. If you're a male under 25 yrs. it's good for car insurance. It grants the subscribers social rights and priviledges. Weddings are fun for family and friends but people legally marry with no show at all. People get married because they want to be with each other forever. At least they're hoping that they'll want that forever. Being married may help relationships through serious problems. One may tend to evaluate a temporal crisis with respect to the long term goals because it's a little more difficult to make hasty decisions. Marriage is security. That doesn't hurt. I'd say being happily married is more fun than happily living together and unhappy marriage is worse than an unhappy relationship. All in all though it doesn't really matter if your married or not. You either love each other and want to be together always or you don't. I'm not afraid to sign my name - just modest