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Why aren't you married?

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  • 16-10-2019 2:01pm
    #1
    begsbyOnaTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭


    Are you married? If not, do you plan to? Is it something you want or think would be good for you? Or is it a thumbs down from you?

    I'm married near two years now. I'd highly recommend it. Not to my wife though. She's taken.

    Why aren't you married? 259 votes

    I don't know
    67% 174 votes
    I'm divorced
    3% 8 votes
    I am married
    1% 4 votes
    Can't find anyone
    12% 33 votes
    Don't want to
    4% 12 votes
    Not allowed to
    10% 28 votes


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    #2
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,507 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    These days we have to ask are you a man or a woman.


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    #3
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,709 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Not married yet. With the person for twenty years. Getting married in two weeks. eek


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    #4
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    I know a guy who got hitched in Vegas and now he’s miserable. That’s right he’s got the shotgun blues


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    #5
    mistress_gi
    Registered Users Posts: 963 ✭✭✭mistress_gi


    Was married. Didn't like it, so I gave it up :)


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    #6
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,529 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    I'm getting married in 2021
    Living with the wife to be years with kids so can't see it changing anything


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    #7
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Meh divorced but with an amazing woman now.
    Planning to pop the question next year all going well.


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    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,215 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I'm single.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #9
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,754 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Lady I'm seeing now is hopefully old enough (36 next month) for any dreams of weddings etc to have been crushed by now and given up upon. Wedding is my worst nightmare so hopefully can avoid till I die :)


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    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    I'm getting married in 2021
    Living with the wife to be years with kids so can't see it changing anything

    I was in the same position and I thought the same but it does change things in a good way


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    #11
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEV4rnu5V8


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    #12
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,437 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    I will never identify myself as married :P


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    hairyprincess
    Registered Users Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    Had brief dalliance with marriage a good few years ago. It was very much a case of ‘marry in haste repent at leisure’. Very happily divorced now and seeing a great guy. I would happily get married again but don’t think the other half is keen on it at the moment. His legal separation is in its early stages and it’s fairly acrimonious.


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    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Married 4 years. As happy now as i was when i met her near on 10 years ago.

    I have no regrets in life. I was banging different ladies for years on end and just got sick of it and decided i wanted to settle down when i hit 30. Happened to meet wifey 4 weeks after my 30th birthday and been with each other ever since.

    However i have a close friend who is married with 3 kids, both he and his wife are having affairs but they are staying with each other for "the kids" real shame.


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    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    Eh, the effort.

    If we ever buy property I guess we better.


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    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Hopefully next year we'll finally lock in the contract.


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    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Hopefully next year we'll finally lock in the contract.

    Is your OH aware of this "contract" yet?


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    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,018 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    begsbyOnaTrain wrote: »
    I'd highly recommend it.
    Go on then - why? Any reason aside from financial?


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Married? What? The very thought of it feels like a rope curling around my heart and lungs and sucking the life out of me.


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    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,014 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Married? What? The very thought of it feels like a rope curling around my heart and lungs and sucking the life out of me.

    I'm same Perse. Happy as a single gal.

    To thine own self be true



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    #21
    armaghlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭armaghlad


    I can’t get a dog to bark at me


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    #22
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


    I am a Westmeath bachelor and my age is 33.
    I don't intend to marry or to raise a family.
    Sure I'm happy and contented just to live the single life.
    And that's the reason why i don't intend to take a wife.


    in all seriousness though, that is fairly accurate except I live in Cork and not westmeath.
    I have no intention of marrying. I prefer spending my quality time with my friends and then having a few causal liaisons with a few fwbs i have.

    No intention to marry as it just seems like work and obligation that will only end up with being stale and pissed off with eachother . I haven't got the patience for it.


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    machaseh
    Registered Users Posts: 777 ✭✭✭machaseh


    I am 27 and have never had a serious relationship, only dated for a couple weeks each. I do not see myself getting a serious relationship let alone a marriage anytime soon.

    Not everybody is as lucky in the love department sadly.


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    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Married? What? The very thought of it feels like a rope curling around my heart and lungs and sucking the life out of me.


    Abort proposal.

    Abort proposal.










    On an unrelated note, anyone want to buy 1000 doves by any chance?


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    #25
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    I have no interest in marriage. If it wasn't for the legal aspect of it, I probably wouldn't bother with marrying at all. As it stands, the legal part of it isn't relevant, so until there is a reason to get married, I probably won't be.


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    #26
    The chan chan man
    Registered Users Posts: 824 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    I am. Less sex but more tax credits... so I use the extra money to buy sex..


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    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,215 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Married? What? The very thought of it feels like a rope curling around my heart and lungs and sucking the life out of me.

    It's kind of how I view dating. If successful, it might lead to marriage at which point I'd fear losing my independence and freedom.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Abort proposal.

    Abort proposal.









    On an unrelated note, anyone want to buy 1000 doves by any chance?

    :D

    Sometimes I feel sad that I haven't ever been chosen. Like I can't imagine what it must be like to have someone make a decision to want to be with me always. Thing is though it's more about that feeling of being 'picked' than the actual person doing the 'picking'.

    I have something in my eye now.


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    #29
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    I'm not married.

    The thoughts of marrying someone who is high maintenance and doesn't give me breathing space doesn't sound appealing.

    Now, someone who will love me enough but leave me alone a lot of the time, respect my independence and not be non-stop chattering sounds right to me.


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    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,151 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Married for 6 years or so, together a lot longer than that (our daughter just turned 11!). The tax credits and an extra date to have to remember to buy her a present for would be the main difference tbh.


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    #31
    Aisling(",)
    Registered Users Posts: 6,379 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    I'd like to get married at some point but can't afford to rent never mind a wedding. I'd like a wedding even if its just a small event.

    Not planning on having kids so it wouldn't be as important to me. If I was to have kids I like the idea of everyone having the same name and being the one unit.Probably wouldn't bother changing my name otherwise.


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