What makes a marriage, a marriage?

Shelley Stevens: marriage is commitment , a label for society to to show ...or in simple words a licence to legally live together where people look at your relation with respect .

Geraldo Mccalla: sex whenever you want it!

Phillip Modafferi: Marriage is living FOR each other, not WITH each other.

Joeann Hoyt: MArriage helps with the legal aspects of things. It also passes on a legitimacy to your children, agin a legal issue

Rosalia Hibler: It is defiantly the way to show your life long devotion to your spouse. After I got married, I felt even closer to my husband than I had felt before, which I didn't think was possible. I'm not really sure why I felt it more after, maybe it was the security knowing he is in the the same as I am. You are right about being able to do all of the same stuff without being married, but there is a new kind of love that forms when you tie the knot with the right person. Marriage makes a statement of your faithfulness to ! the world, so in a way it is mostly a status symbol. To me, it is the greatest thing in the world to say I am married and refer to him as my husband. I am proud of that fact and it just feels good to say it. There is a new level of respect that comes with marriage. I respect him in different ways now and he does me also....Show more

Joie Kemmis: its not what makes a marriage but when you sign the paper you are giving her something to keep such as your pension if something should happen to her you are giving he a right to have what you own and want her to have if you die and she has to try to make it with out you it is not the paper or marriage it is saying that you love her enough to want her to be secure by giving her the rights to your name property ETC letting her know it is important to you that she has every thing she will need if your gone...Show more

Tyrone Disanti: COMPROMISE makes a marriage, a marriage. Otherwise we'd all be happy 'single' men n women!

Rosalba Lingner: It's a promise to God and to each othe! r to stay with one another forever. I don't have any idea why an Atheist would get married, other than for the tax breaks. Personally, if I was an Atheist, I'd probably forgo marriage entirely and just jump from one relationship to the next. I mean why not live your life doing whatever makes you feel good all the time? That includes secretly cheating while in a relationship. If you can get away with it, why not? Sure, I'll tell them that I love her, am committed to her, will always cherish her, respect her, and the list goes on. But as the fire seems to be going out and I happen to meet someone else that starts a new fire in my heart, I'd be thinking to myself, "Why not? I'm not even married!"...Show more