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Do you get married if you aren't sure it's forever?

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Skepticlove · 02/02/2022 23:16

I got engaged to my partner years and years ago. We booked our wedding 3 years in advance so it was already a long engagement when our wedding rolled around and when it did it was peak covid so it got cancelled.

Neither of us have made any effort to reschedule, and I just think I've grown up a lot since we first got engaged and my feelings about relationships aren't the same as they were back then. To be honest I'm not convinced people are meant to spend their entire life with one person, forever is a long time and I'm sort of, of the opinion that different people are right for you at different points in your life. I want to be with him right now but I don't know if we will still be together in 15 years time.

So I don't get married right? The only reason I worry that I should is because people say you are a lot more protected, but it just seems silly to promise forever when I'm just not sure it's realistic?

OP posts:
Sleepytimebear · 04/02/2022 19:18

@MMmomDD as I said not everyone is in the position where marriage is best for them financially. If it is, great go ahead, but if it isn't, and you don't believe marriage is forever, it probably isn't the best idea. I don't think the OP is smug because they may be in a different financial position to you!

MMmomDD · 04/02/2022 19:25

@Sleepytimebear

I am in that position myself, charmed comfortable life, etc. I just know I am privileged and won’t be waxing lyrical about love and and marriage knowing that for many people it’s not the same.

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