What is Marriage?

no its not a pressure its a relation between two hearts

To me marriage is a spiritual union between two people. When I get married in the church I will be married in God's eyes, that I have found the one He wanted me to live my life with, my other half. And getting married enhances that and strengthen our bond to each other.

Marriage is the foundation of the family unit. In this society and time, the family is the closest knit, self-perpetuating, self-protecting unit. It is necessary economically and otherwise to the society the way it is set up in present time. A culture will go by the boards if its basic building block, the family, is removed as a valid building block. So one can be fairly sure that he who destroys marriage destroys the civilization.

I think, and it is sad to say, but I think that in America marriage has become too much of a social and disposible commodity. Some get married for the benefits of merging businesses or the tax benefits of marrying; some don't get married for the benefit (governmental benefits of single moms); some get married because they need to feel secure in SOMETHING, but when an obstacle presents itself, these marriages usually fold with the wind and I think it's because society is teaching us to trade up instead of fixing what's broken.