Free life or life without responsibility
By bhanusb
@bhanusb (5709)
India
March 17, 2010 11:41am CST
I got good number of responses from a discussion. Of them most of the ladies commented that they want no baby. But they did not say they will not marry. If they don't want any kid is there any necessary to marry? There is a option to live together.They can prefer that. A family means husband,wife and child. Every family member has the responsibility towards family. Live together is a bohemian life. There is no responsibility ,no bindings-- only free life. My question for them what they actually want!
7 responses
@my_name_is_coco (4333)
• Philippines
20 Mar 10
I love a free life.I would like to live life in my own terms.if I am meant to be married,it'll happen.if I am meant to live a blissful single life,then I will be happier.I don't want be married just because I feel pressured by people around me.I have my whole life to get married,if I am meant to.
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
17 Mar 10
Hi bhanusb, its a bit late in the night and I am sleepy, so I hope what I want to express comes across clearly enough. Children are beautiful - especially babies. There is no denying that. But the responsibilities that come along with them are daunting. In olden days, women didnt have jobs. But now, managing jobs, and relationships in a new environment adds to the women's duties. Effectively, it becomes a tedious proposition. It is not exactly free life! Everybody is working towards a comfortable old age. Children may or may not happen. They can always adopt them. In fact, I think every person desirous of a second child should consider adoption as an option.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
18 Mar 10
Hi bandana. I'm thankful to you. I got your valuable response in your sleepy mood. I agree life has changed. Now women are working outside to maintain the family. Husbands and wives should share together to go life easy. I think without a child a married life can't reach in a complete shape. A lovely baby makes the family full of joy. I think without a child life become fatigue.

@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Apr 10
bhanusb hi oh Iwould have got so sick of that life with no responsibility like where I am now in this retirement center. its just existing course better than being on the street and homeless. but I married and had two children went thru the pain,oh such pain,of losing our eight year old daughter, but we survived and lived and loved and laughed, oh the laughter that was so good. I dont think that living together is necessarily free, there are responsibilities they just do not stay together its like a square dance, they keep changing partners.get mad one has habits the other does not like, out he or she goes, just change partners and d ance.oh i wou ld have hated that.I am elderly now but love that I had a real marriage,hubby and children, my son is my mainstay now and comes to see me weekly. I really do not know what the live togethers really want and wonder is they do?




@ladybugmagic (3978)
• United States
17 Mar 10
People marry who want to spend their lives together, evolve, see new things, learn together, etc. There is no obligation to have children. In some cases, some couples can't have children. Living together does come with its own responsibilities. You have to pay bills together, schedule mutual functions together, devote time to enjoying one another.
Marriage is about love. Not procreation.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
18 Mar 10
Humans life is not like other animals. We are rational and social animals. Long long before humans lived in jungles. There was no system of marriage. Then there were mothers but no identity of fathers. To make society in a order men and women became bonded in married life. Humans became civilized. Husbands and wives share. But not as partnership business.
@ladybugmagic (3978)
• United States
18 Mar 10
Marriage does not require children, and, vice versa, there are plenty of single parents around that never married. As is, we are overpopulated, we don't need to keep breeding so rapidly as a species, because we under the misguidance that it will make our family complete.
Children are a great addition to a couple, but, marriage is sacred and does not revolve around offspring. Otherwise, you are marrying for the wrong reasons.
@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
11 Apr 10
Life without responsibility is a lazy life. I don't want that. I wanna have a wife and kids and i'd like to be responsible to them and for them. Without responsibility, life would be fun from the start but if you look at it, It's really empty and lonely.
@achilles2010 (3051)
• India
22 Mar 10
I never wanted to be alone. I could never imagine life living alone, without a friend and a companion; and without children. After 33 years of marriage, I lost my wife 10 years ago. My children were married; they had children of their own. I too retired and I found a free life, a life without responsibility, all alone, with no one around. Whether you wish to lead a life without responsibility or you opt to marry, a time would come when you will find yourself alone. Why not get married and enjoy both kind of life, a life with family, and a life alone without responsibility.
@Beautyfactor (1510)
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31 Mar 10
Marrying someone does not automatically mean that you want to have children, but I do understand what you are trying to say. I think if I were young again and didn't want children then I probably would not marry either. I don't think it's about having a life without responsibility because every adult has some degree of responsibility in their lives.
I would also think that many of these women, once they found their Mr right would also change their minds about having children. My sister and her partner are an excellent example of this. She has always been determined to never marry and to never have children, but now she is living with the love of her life she has admitted to him and me how that has now changed her perception of life.






