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I ALWAYS WANTED TO GET MARRIED
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I always wanted to get married one day

It sounds tacky I know, but it is true.

I always did - not because I wanted to be married just for the sake of it, but because I wanted to find that someone to spend the rest of my life with.

Someone I could devote myself to.

And if you have that person then why not get married?

I wasn't in any particular hurry, but I wanted it to happen eventually.

One day.

A couple of times I even thought I had found that person.

Thing is I don't feel like that anymore, or at least that is how I feel at this point of my life.

Oh sure I still think its a nice idea - everlasting love, honesty, and companionship blah blah blah - I just don't believe it actually happens.

I guess I have lost my faith in lasting human relationships.

There is an oft-quoted statistic that says that 50% of marriages end in divorce these days.

What about the other 50% though?

How many of them are still together only because of emotional inertia?

Because of shared responsibilities?

Or because they just don't want to face the fact that it is all over?

How many of those that insist they are happy are actually just experiencing cognitive dissonance because they don't want to admit to themselves that they could put so much time into something that didn't work?

How big is that steadily shrinking percentage of long-term happily married couples?

I don't think it is very big at all.

I am not sure it even exists anymore.

And so when I see friends get married I am glad they are happy now, but I pity them for what I am sure is ahead.

I always hope it all works out for them but somehow I don't think it will.

And as for me, I don't want to get married anymore, at least for the moment.

The times I have been hurt in the past, I was still able to dimly remember how to function on my own.

I was able to slowly claw my way back to a relatively stable platform of self-reliance, and I do not want to give that up again.

Because if I did then maybe next time it would last 5 or even 10 years before everything fell apart, and I do not think I would survive that.

But then again, who knows what the future holds in store?

Who knows how I will feel tomorrow, next week or next year?

I might think differently then.

But for now...

The Marriage Quiz

You are very likely to marry your sweetheart. 

You are happy, and totally love each other, and if you WANT to be together, then just do it! 

You will have a very loving marriage, and will kind of be like "Dharma and Greg." 

If you were an American pie couple, you would be Jim and Michelle. you totally belong together, and should be together at all costs

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