I need help with an idea for my story...

Maybe one or both of the characters could have gotten married to be able to leave home for some reason? That's the only other reason I can think of off the top of my head.

There is something I've read about in Muslim Shi'ite culture, where two people may commit to something called a temporary marriage. The length of the union is predetermined and may be as brief as an hour. If one of the couple committed a crime, and the other perhaps unknowingly witnessed something, then the guilty person might decide to marry that person as in many legal systems a spouse may not testify against the person he/she is married to. An inheritance may stipulate that an heir must be married to inherit - but this is an overused theme. A person may need to present a stable family to be able to adopt - perhaps a specific child? An old-fashioned option would be because married people are favored for promotion in the company where one person lives. Then consider Lucy Irvine, the author of Castaway - who spent a year on a desert island with a man she didn't know beforehand so he could write about the experience. The government who held jurisdiction over the island Tuin (I think it was the Australian government) wouldn't grant them permission to stay there for a year unless they were married. The joke of the matter was that Lucy Irvine, who had no advance plans to that effect, was the one who ended up writing the book about the experience. Hope some of this helps, if you're still looking for ideas.

It used to be for business reasons. So maybe the young woman's father's business is going bankrupt, and so the father pressures her to marry the son of the business owner who is trying to drive out her father. She really cannot stand the son, he is an inconsiderate oaf, but she marries him, and they both hate each other, but after some thing that you can think of, they make a go of it and fall in love. She could the daughter of a member of the Russian mafia and this rookie cop offers her a marriage of convenience because he knows some powerful people in the FBI who can protect her. She is a bad girl, and she needs witness protection, and the FBI agent guarding her is pretending to introduce him to his family as his fiance, but then his mother wants a wedding, and before you know it, they are married. You can make this a comedy, make her sort of a floozie, and the other gangsters make mistakes. You can also make this in the 1920s or 1930s. There are three ideas.

I have and idea and this is actually based on a true story, one of my good friends is gay and only child and his family happens to be very wealthy or rather his grandma was a very rich woman, she has deposited all of her wealth for him with the only condition of marrying a woman and having kids, he has never been with a woman and he´s so not interested in having kids, he keeps telling me that the only thought of being with one, gives him the chills, believe or not, he´s even thinking about quitting the inheritance.

Have you ever read To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing? The reason why two people marry off doesn't have to be big and dramatic. It could be simply that, as it is in To Room Nineteen, the couple feel like they have to conform to some middle-class ideal.

How about two couples wherby the cultural grounded parents of the young female do not agree to the young male their daughter wishes to be married to, the parents try to keep them apart, yet the young couple are deep in love with one another and to enforce so to say their will and relationship unto the cultural grounded parents they get married leagally yet in secrete only revealing after some time to the parents what thier current position is in that relationship

hi katran! well there are several reasons for wanting to get married. for women, a lot of them just feel that at a certain point of their lives, they would want to settle down and and have children. it is rather biological because after a certain age, women can no longer bear children, and after a certain age, there are risks, even if they can be able to bear children. risks for them and their children. and of course, for some women, they would want to be taken care of, and they assume that marrying will give them somebody to take care of them. while for others, well, it is just the need to love someone and to take care of someone else. i am married. i wanted to settle down already. i was 32 when i got married. but thankfully, i am very happy that i got married. it would have been different if i had not been. i am happy that i did. take care and God bless you happy weekend! :-)

I think financial reasons are the most convenient but people also get married for companionship. I think either of those reasons would be good. People also get married because they have a commonality of interest. In lots of cases they are just getting married because they have a need for some to the above things.

I have an idea, I am not too sure if it is original. However it just flash across my head. I think I might have seen a movie of something similar, however I really cannot remember. So do not flame me if there is already a movie about it. Single mother wants to get child to a good, reputed shool which places highly on family values. So Single parents are not suitable canidates for the school acceptance. Single male (likely asia because of value) is being rush by family to get married due to father's ailling health. Chinese believe it brings luck.