Getting married involves a lot of decision making, personal sacrifices, and unforeseen changes in your life. It's hard in the beginning to remember that you now have another person's future to be concerned about. All of your decisions don't revolve solely around you. Hopefully this will be useful for couples to think about it twice about marrying someone. Many people think marriage will fill a void in their life. I said to myself many times that marriage will not complete you. You need to enter into your marriage as a complete person. If you're not happy with yourself before marriage you will bring feelings into your union and they will arise again.
             I have friends that I adore to pieces, but most of them I would go crazy if I had to be married to them. I've loved people in the past that I just couldn't' imagine living with because I didn't like them enough to tolerate their little quirks or attitudes about certain things. Make sure you know your future spouse well enough that you actually like the person behind the title.
             I was engaged to my kid's father for about 3 years. We've pretty much stopped talking about getting married after a while. I would still wear the ring and tell people I was engaged but it stops there. At the time I still loved him but I did not want to marry him. Nothing against him really, I just don't feel like I could marry anyone. I never imagined getting married like other girls do.
             My parents hated each other my whole life. Each one blamed the other for ruining their lives. I've got a real twisted sense of marriage. I like my independence and think I'd be a happy old maid in the future. If it weren't for my 2 little girls I would have been out of this a long time ago, but they love their dad so I felt stuck.
             I've seen many divorces occur because of money issues. Sometimes it's helpful for you each to have your own bank accounts and then have a jo...