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| Back to Past Mouth-OffsA divorced woman who had been married for only a year and a half told me that she had loved being married. Some people just don’t get it. Marriage is a PERMANANT union between two people. In a sense, if you get a divorce, you weren’t really married.
Unless you plan on creating a family in isolation or deserting all those who brought you up, marriage is not "a private affair between two people". Marriage is a contract created to solidify the process of building a family; having kids who will naturally interact with cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. Thus, when parents and relatives have opinions about the marriage, they aren’t rudely butting in; they are showing concern for the on-going growth of their own family.
Marriage is about building a solid family, not simply a contract to not have sex with anyone else. Certainly if you live with someone forever, you should have an agreement about sex, and most people choose an agreement that says they will only have sex with each other and no one else. But some couples have swinging relationships where the married couples bring in other sexual partners. As long as the "swinging" is open, honest, and prearranged, a couple who has sex with other partners is not necessarily any less married than a couple who chooses to not have sex with anyone else forever.
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