Marriage

I have a very negative opinion of marriage.

I don't think having legal recognition should be necessary to make it binding. I don't believe saying "until death do us part" in front of a priest or a judge or friends and family makes the commitment we have to one another deeper.

Look at the rates of divorce.

Marriage, in my mind, is another contributing factor to complacency. It's a deeper intertwining of financial lives and such that becomes more difficult to get out of than to stay in if troubles occur and so people can become neglectful of the relationship because they know it would be hard for the other to leave.

All of that said...when I think of YOU, and you alone...when we find one another I know that it will be for life. I know marriage would be a formality more than anything else and that our commitment to our relationship would be able to transcend the typical complacency that follows marriage in so many cases.

I will be very scared of marrying you. It will take me time. But with you and you alone, I would undertake that gesture.