Marriage should be totally dependent on what the couple want.

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I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. Marriage, which is a union between a man and a woman, is something that has existed since time immemorial and is as old as man. Marriage is not a journey you start today and you can come out of tomorrow, which makes it important that you prepare before you embark on that journey. I feel that before deciding to settle down with a person, you have to see that you can actually put up with both their bad and good sides and not just their good sides because marriage is a long journey and you will actually have to experience both.

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Lately marriage is not what it used to be. Back in the day you hardly saw a marriage come crashing down because before both parties decided to take that path, they knew what was involved and were ready to see it through together, but today we see people who are not ready rushing into marriage, people with little or no understanding at all wanting to get into marriage, probably because their friends are married or because of pressure from friends and family asking them to do so, and when they do, it is only a matter of time before it comes crashing down and they are taking the path of divorce, making marriage look like it is a taboo or something that only brings sadness and sorrow.

Marriage is having to deal with a person's flaws, their good and bad sides, until death do you part, which is really not an easy thing to have to put up with, which makes me feel marriage is not meant for people with little or no understanding but people who are ready to endure, people who are ready to deal with whatever comes and sort it out without having to fight or beat each other up. To sum it all up, I feel marriage is for mature minds, and in this context age does not actually determine who has a mature mind, but our level of understanding is what determines who is mature or has a mature mind.

I don't think there should be an age range for marriage; once one is of the age to be married and finds someone they want to do life with, then age shouldn't be a barrier unless the couple or one of them decides that it is a barrier for them. Then age should be considered. No age range should always be passed; the age gap should be completely dependent upon what the couples involved want and not what the government wants.

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If a guy realizes that a lady 10 years older or younger is the one that has the type of understanding he needs and wants her to be his wife, it should be the lady's choice to want to go with a guy 10 years older or younger and not the government or law trying to decide that for them. I feel marriage should be totally dependent on what the couples want and not what the government or law wants for them. Some laws can force people into marrying someone who would ruin them in the long run, and I feel a law like this is one of those laws.