How many of us wish we never got married?

"You have to have known you did not love the person before you got married." I don't think it works that way.You can know or believe that you are in love with a person but, after a while, you can find out things you didnt know about him/her - how he/she reacts in situations you didnt find yourselves in prior to marriage or how you feel about him/her in new situations. Also, people change with time and, its a sad fact of life that couples can grow apart and fall out of love. As for getting out of a relationship, it is not always straightforward because people gain responsibilities - like children, mortgages, ageing parents. Sometimes people stay out of a sense of obligation to their partners or because it is simply the more financially practical thing to do. You can fall out of love with a person without hating them and, even though you may not love them, if you've been together for a while you probably still care what happens to them. It could be that you secretly wish they would go off and find someone else so you can get your life back because you don't actually want to hurt them. (IMHO)

Well I understand what you had to say about, consequences. That is why one only marries once, and you take the good and the bad. One must know what is getting into before committing to a lifetime union. I don't believe one should be in a position where you get to justify falling out love. For that to happen you must not have being in love to begin and got married for the wrong reasons. Its a fact of life people change and some habits are learn good or bad after the fact, but, still for one to fall out of love; goes to show the individual was in it for the wrong reasons. There are couples who go on through their lives happily married for decades and all will tell you how did you do it? and they will claim each other are best friends, based their relationship in love and respect, communication and dedication. Not on regret.