Why do people get married? Why is marriage important


There’s a beautiful quote from the movie ‘Shall We Dance’ in which Susan Sarandon (the wife) tries to explain why people get married. It struck a chord with me because this explanation of the need for marriage is gender independent yet not utilitarian – it talks about the spouse as a companion, a witness. It simply says that we marry because we need a witness to our lives.

"We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does anyone's life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything -the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day.

You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'."

Really?

Because we need a witness in our lives?

Because we need someone to witness our moments of weaknesses and imperfections?

Because we need someone to deny us our privacy by 'witnessing what our private life is like'?

Not a good enough reason for me sha...

in plain language, to reproduce

edozie04:
in plain language, to reproduce

Really?

Am confuse....am yet to read a valid reason

brito:





Really?

scientifically

[quote author=brito post=30449042][/quote]true right?