Getting Married.
It would appear that less and less people still get married today, opting rather to live together ‘in sin’.
That piece of paper that states that you are now husband and wife seems to count for very little lately.A child with a surname different to the mother or father no longer carries a stigma as before. The legal aspects of such a ‘partnership’, which is all that marriage really is, can easily be arranged with a contract similar to a normal prenuptial contract.
Then have one hellava big party and you may kiss the non-bride!
Another step in human evolution; man and wife no longer form permanent bonds as they used to.
Mind you, it is very good for our genetic pool when men and women have children from various partners. I know somebody who has five children with four different fathers; and she was married to all at some stage or another.
So why get married? If you really want so much trouble – buy yourself a used Alfa Romeo!
Stay loose; don’t worry – be happy!
Comments (95)
In Germany I think it's different, you have to be married to get legal rights. It is also possible to do a pre-nup as in whatever one party brings into marriage stays theirs, that's not legally binding in Ireland though.
For me marriage would only be important if there were kids, because I think for them a serious commitment would be important but only with a pre-nup!
Lotto is a special tax levied on the stupid!
i worry now. the other day long relationships, now marriage vs living together. you have plans?
I am in my early thirties and majority of my friends and colleagues are married ....
Then I bow to your greater wisdom. It seems like you have a point to make, so well done if all your friends are married. Most my friends are also married, but that is not what the discussion is about. Maybe you should read the blog and all the comments again to get the gist of it.
And then I would like to repeat what I said. Look at the age bracket 20 to 30. Don't just look at yoursels at the top extreme of the age bracket. Or maybe you don't have such a broad contact with people.
Though, as I said, very little to do with the discussion here, but your point is noted.
I certainly have no plans for the immediate future.
Another blog that was written very much tongue in the cheek, taken very seriously.
I must really change my pic to something more friendly.
In Barbados once you have been living together for 5 years it is considered as common law marriage and the "spouse " is be entitled to certain benefits legally.
Married or not makes no difference once that 5 years have passed.
I have realized that a lot of young people are still getting married so the institution is not dead!
Hmm, plenty of marriages still around, but more and more are opting to live together. My nephew got married the other day after living together for more than five years. Their two children looked very conspicious with them at the main table. Why didn't they marry five years ago?
See what I mean.
Will be back soon and tell you all about marriage...
But I'll start by saying that marriages are made in heaven...
And that I prefer to institutionalized relations...
Do not be sad....
You had a good day, yes?
Hmm, you are right, as usually, marriages are made in heaven. But lightning, thunder and hail also comes from there!
I'm sure to look at it as well. Just in case I decide to live in Ireland.
Do you really have leprechauns there? And four leaved clovers?
With the circus happening here with church weddings, I would happily opt out of that and just have a simple civil ceremony.
More people are just living together in Germany than in Ireland, and I still don't get this "God, what will the neighbours think" here in Ireland and a lot of couples actually not living together before marriage - know a good few people who do regret that one a couple of years later...
'Church' is very much culture or upbringing. What is important to me, may be irrelevant to you; and vice versa. Thus the diversity of the people on this planet we share.
As I said to Who earlier, this was written tongue in the cheek and look what I got.
Tomorrow's blog is more serious; I hope the people don't take it for a joke!
And just for you:
They are called "Glücksklee" in German and as children we were told they bring good luck, so if we found one we would press it in a book to preserve it and hope for some good luck.
We were also told that they bring good luck. We have large clover fields and I have search all my childhood life for one. Never found it. So no luck!
you tell us now. you getting married or jus live with her?
And she says she found several. Maybe that's we we have no luck!
You would have been Lucky Luke then.
I fear i cannot quite understand what you mean here.
Could you please rephrase or explain.
Yes, marriage with a prenuptual contract seems to be the safest way in the long run.
I have seen two cases here where one partner had died and the surviving partner (both cases female) got absolutely nothing. The family of the diseased simply took all. Both men died intestate.
Financially that is. Being marries is no guarrantee for a ssuccessful marriage. A coule I know lived hapily together fo 20 years; then got mrried to divorce five years later.
My respect. The word itself marriage not to be pleasant to me if to consider that that if something is made not so marriage is called. And at you I don't know as it sounds.
in the Russian language, these two words are pronounced the same, and write too.
reject and marriage
( a defective product, recognized as unfit)
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