Marriage

Up until recently, I've always wanted to get married. I would imagine my dad walking me down the aisle, flowers everywhere, and pretty colors surrounded by a bunch of friends and family. As I've grown older, I slowly have wanted less to do with a wedding. I want it in a backyard, with just close family and friends. And today, right now, I can't imagine spending the money on something so...not useful. Thousands and thousands of dollars go towards one day, but for what? Pictures to look back on? It isn't usually an easy day for either parties, and takes months of stress to plan everything out to a specific detail.

Maybe it's about the type of relationship that you share with that person, that sacred, honorable promise that you're giving yourself to a single person forever.

But why?
We should celebrate the beginning of a relationship when you ask your significant other to be yours and no one else's.

But then, why do we want to cut people offf from having sex with other people? Or other intimate relationships with others? It is in human nature to reproduce, and we naturally seek companionship.

There's just something about relationships that I don't understand, more of the idea of getting married than anything else. A celebration of people coming together and not having sex with anyone else and having a close relationship isn't all that special, considering we have a very similar relationship with our best friends. You have sex with a boyfriend and you don't have sex with a girl friend. Unless you're gay, a cheater, or a male (switch roles, I am female.).


A couple shouldn't need to have an official ceremony commemorating their fidelity to each other. Or a day for the wife to look beautiful. Why wear a white dress when the majority of couples have had sex, and the majority of those getting married have not been pure for the duration of their life?