single, divorced or widowed...

I guess on the most official forms, there's a reason for that, since they might want to know whether you changed your last name, or whether the children may have a different last name than the mother, things like that. On others, where there's really nobody's business, they just copy over whatever they've seen in other forms, I guess. Though I've read somewhere that people who put "divorced" or "widow/er" as relationship status on their social network profiles are more likely to attract romantic interest, because it shows they've tried being in a relationship before, as opposed to plain "single", which might imply anything, from being a nutcase or too weird for a relationship, to being completely not interested in any form of commitment. I don't claim I understand the logic, but people are weird with labels.

Personally, what about people who are common law married? They are not single per sey, so what about them? I often have thought they need to include this in the area for a relationship as well, and the divorced is one that I think depends on what your feelings are on this one. Overall I have no issues with this one, but I have been happily married now for just over 13 yrs.

Hi, I do see those application form either in physical or online which ask for marital status.Of course, with my current life, I am married and I just simply tick on that column. It is not a big issue for me..

This question can be annoying on required forms to fill out. i don't see what marital status has to do with a lot of forms we fill out in our lives. What difference does it really make for someone to know about that part of our lives?

There is also widowed. I agree that divorced is single. And they should be able to classify divorced as single. So that it wouldnt be time consuming for those who fills up the forms. Unless they wanted to know what your status is behind being single. This can be very important in statistics though. Being specific of everything.

this is a big questionf for us. can you tell me what kind of life you like best? if you feel happy to be single or be with the other man. you can choose by yourself

Well how can divorced mean single? Once you're married can you really ever be single again? A single-minded person could never marry, while a married person can never really expect to think like a single person again. Also a single person cannot have kids, because once she has kids shes not single anymore, shes now a person with a kid!