Do you think marriage is a good idea?

[Kaido]

Also some interesting information on actual marriage statistics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-is-over-but-the-myth-lives-on.html?_r=1

It is no longer true that the divorce rate is rising, or that half of all marriages end in divorce. It has not been for some time. Even though social scientists have tried to debunk those myths, somehow the conventional wisdom has held.

Despite hand-wringing about the institution of marriage, marriages in this country are stronger today than they have been in a long time. The divorce rate peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s and has been declining for the three decades since.

About 70 percent of marriages that began in the 1990s reached their 15th anniversary (excluding those in which a spouse died), up from about 65 percent of those that began in the 1970s and 1980s. Those who married in the 2000s are so far divorcing at even lower rates. If current trends continue, nearly two-thirds of marriages will never involve a divorce, according to data from Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist (who also contributes to The Upshot).

 

[Svnla]

I am currently in a predicament of should I move forward with marriage or not. So I can't tell either way if a marriage is a good idea or not. Dazed and confused.

 

[Puffnstuff]

To be honest only you can answer the question of whether or not marriage is right for you. Sit down and weigh things out and make a list if you have to organizing your thoughts for and against it to see where you really are regarding it. I have been widowed now for 13 years and am in no hurry to get that way again.

 

[HeXen]

It's a legal binding piece of paper. You can go out, buy rings and live a married life without any difference except you can file single on your taxes..which usually would come out much better for me if I could.