how do you decide who to marry?

[psychedelicist]

Question: How do you decide who to marry?

"You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming."
-Alan, age 10

"No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with."
-Kirsten, age 10

Question: What is the right age to get married?

"Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then."
-Camille, age 10

"No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married."
-Freddie, age 6

Question: How can a stranger tell if two people are married?

"You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids."
-Derrick, age 8

Question: What do you think your mom and dad have in common?

"Both don't want any more kids."
-Lori, age 8

Question: What do most people do on a date?

"Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough."
-Lynnette, age 8

"On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date."
-Martin, age 10

Question: What would you do on a first date that was turning sour?

"I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns."
-Craig, age 9

Question: When is it okay to kiss someone?

"When they're rich."
-Pam, age 7

"The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that."
-Curt, age 7

"The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do."
-Howard, age 8

Question: Is it better to be single or married?

"It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them."
-Anita, age 9

Question: How would you make a marriage work?

"Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck."
-Ricky, age 10

(taken from a mesage on myspace i got)

personally i agree with alan. thoughts? comments?

 

[Catholicon]

Hahaha! That's great!

Personally speaking, though:

1) If I fall in love with them.

2) If they say Yes.

 

[Ramona]

K, I'm quite sure that my downstairs neighbor heard me laughing at Derrick's input.

 

[RavenPoe]

ROFL

So now I know how to get my boyfriend to marry me... chips and dip - duh!!

 

[Caitlin.ann]

Great post, lol.

How do you decide who to marry? When you find someone who loves you as truly and deeply as you love them. Someone who has a good head on their shoulders and is respectful, understanding, and loving.

 

[igotbegot]

Wow, that was really funny.

I knew I wanted to be married to my wife when I realized that not only would she be a good partner for life, but that I wouldn't want to have kids and grow old with anyone else.

 

[Apollo Celestio]

Me? Divine revelation in a dream, that's probably the only way I'm getting married.

 

[Snowbunny]

lol that was very cute...

i met my husband on a field trip at about the same age as most of those kids.. i was 8. all i can really remember about how i felt was that i felt very secure and comfortable around him, like we had been together forever... he didn't let go of my hand for the entire field trip and he led me around the museum with so much authority that i just followed him around under the assumption he knew what he was doing (he didn't). he was so careful too... he always looked both ways before we crossed the street together and stared down other boys that looked at me. i kind of felt like some kind of egg he was afraid of breaking. we said nothing to each other the entire time but it felt like we said a lot, then when we got back and he had to take a bus back with his school he said 'goodbye' and i just stared at him.

somehow our parents met up... i don't really remember how that happened... and all of a sudden he was in my life. not really as a friend, just kind of a nebulous love interest until we started going out in 7th grade...

 

[Atheuz]

Howard is creepy.

 

[ArchaicTruth]

Somehow I have a hard time believing that the age's displayed in that post are accurate, and my sole reason is because it came from myspace XD

If I met someone who strives to understand and who returns what I give, I'd probably marry her on the spot.

 

[gwenmead]

LOL!

I must say I sympathize with Freddie, largely because of Anita.

I married my first husband because I thought it was what I was supposed to do as a godly Christian woman. I married my second husband because he was willing to put my happiness above his own.

The first marriage was humiliation. The second is thriving. And that's all I care to say about that right now.

 

[tcampen]

I think this just goes to prove we need to get back to traditional marriages, the way God intended.

Yes, that's right.

Arranged Marriages!

Marrying for love is an invention of just the last few centuries, compared with the thousands of years of arranged marriages.

Yes. I support TRADITIONAL marriage!

 

[ArchaicTruth]

LOL!

I must say I sympathize with Freddie, largely because of Anita.

I married my first husband because I thought it was what I was supposed to do as a godly Christian woman. I married my second husband because he was willing to put my happiness above his own.

The first marriage was humiliation. The second is thriving. And that's all I care to say about that right now.

Good for you

 

[Ferran]

I think this just goes to prove we need to get back to traditional marriages, the way God intended.

Yes, that's right.

Arranged Marriages!

Marrying for love is an invention of just the last few centuries, compared with the thousands of years of arranged marriages.

Yes. I support TRADITIONAL marriage!

Well, I'm going to take a leap here and assume most of us think that marrying for love is better than "because your Dad says so". So...care to explain why you favor old-school marriages?

On a side note: I'd just like to express how thankful I am (to no deity in particular) that we don't live in an era where women are considered so much objects and property of men that they can be married away for politics and profit like they have been for the past 2 millenniums.

 

[DustyfootPhilosopher]

I really have no idea. I'd like to. Have an idea that is. But I don't. I'm not counting my own misconceptions. I call them misconceptions because it is my human nature that draws me to those conclusions. We really are completely deceived when it comes to marriage. Seriously, look at the state of world relationships. I think the purpose of marriage along with the definition of marriage is very misdefined in society. That's my conclusion as to why most people are so damn miserable in marriage. Or are not growing as people of the Faith in marriage. If your not growing your dying.

 

[Eudaimonist]

ROTFLOL at the OP!

On a serious note, I don't think I would listen to me about how one should decide who to marry. My marriage is, unfortunately, not working out, and not for a lack of placing a high priority on my wife's happiness. Ah, well.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[The Bellman]

There is only one good reason to ever marry, and that's because you have met someone without whom you cannot imagine spending the rest of your life.

 

[The Nihilist]

There is only one good reason to ever marry, and that's because you have met someone without whom you cannot imagine spending the rest of your life.

No more chick flicks for you.

 

[Belk]

Question: What would you do on a first date that was turning sour?

"I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns."
-Craig, age 9
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Darn! Kid stole my tactic!