Do people still get married?

[Alan]

Hello,

Do you think that getting married is becoming old-fashioned? Or is it the other way round and we will be seeing more and more 'same sex marriages'? In the story below you will find out what a 'G.O.M' is how this abbreviation relates to the tradition of tying the knot.

Do people still get married?
http://www.english-test.net/stories/43/index.html

So, what is your take?

Alan
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[Pamela]

Good question, Alan. Nowadays it’s considered modern to live together without being married, of course. This tendency is getting involved in my country but the majority of couples are officially married. I’m happy to realize that. I have a neutral position towards civil marriage. From the one hand it has many advantages. In their together life couples without registration their relationship can experience whether they match each other. If not they can easily scatter without usual routine caused by divorce. From the other hand legally they have no duties to each other, no rights, requirements as if they are quite strange people. My treatment to marriage is sacred and I regard it as a great responsiblility. I’m a supporter of wedlock.

[Jan]

Hi,
I really don't know what may be now on top about marriage/divorce affairs in Poland.
I guess something very similar to the rest of Europe or maybe some Polish local mutation.
I only know that girls whose I knew were mostly very, very serious about their own weddings/marriages and if they were talking different it was profoundly just the game.
It is probably a main difference between us

Regards
Jan
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[bulgarian]

I am living with my boyfriend but we are not married. I hope one day we will be. I want to be married, I want to have a real family.
Here in Bulgaria many people just live together, have children but really I want to get married.
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[Tamara]

Hi

Just to add a post about Russia.

There are quite many Russian marriages in which spouses decide not to change their (sur)names. For some reasons. They can happily live together for dozens of years keeping ther 'maiden' names.

There are marriages in which husband decidedly takes the maiden name of his wife For some reason. Rare, but not very rare. Equality (Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite …you know )

My grandmother and granddad got married officially after 7 years of living in sin When they gave birth to their second child. For that period of time (1930s-40s) it was quite usual, even in university environment . Children were normally registered with parents who have no marriage certificate and were not offended as bastards

After the World War II the special government decree were adopted to raise ‘birth rate’; in accordance with it men were relieved of ANY responsibilities (aliments, etc) for their out-of-marriage offspring,

Now… Russia is a too large country to answer. Tourists’ Moscow and St. Petersburg are, in fact, European cities (almost ) – but it’s not true Russia. But as I myself had also never lived in a small town or villages, I can’t be a representative

As I know from my relatives and friends, young Russians prefers to have a try before – to live together for a while - and then get married. With that bridle veils, of course . Marriage is popular.

But actually I don’t know the current statistics of divorces.
I can only say that almost all youngsters with whom I talked about marriage, took the traditional formula 'Till death do us part. In grief and in joy, in illness and in health, ...' - rather with the irony.
For them it’s just the partnership, indeed.

Tamara
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[Rosalisa]

Hi

Married? In my country, it's always important for the couples to get married, registering a marriage certificate. If not, the couples will be just stared at everywhere they go. And when they have children, theirs are considered "bastards"(sorry). In my religion also, living together without marriage means a sin so people who, i guess, have fuddy-duddy ideas hate couples who don't get married. But the world here seems to change a bit. They can become boyfriend and girlfriend first without serious phisical contact. Then after they have found out about each other for a long time, they can decide to marry.
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[spencer]

I'm married, but non of my friends is.
I got married at the Niagara falls, since then that's my favorite place in the world.We're planning to have two more weddings just to make sure.
In Hungary people don't worry about things like marriage 'cause there are more impotant things, like mortgage. About ten years ago people didn't like those couples who had a child but had no rings on their figers,
it has changed.
Everybody respects the others who has the courage to have a child at this difficult time in Hungary.
People think twice before they spend a lot of money on a wedding.
Spencer