from www.internetcampus.org

Some unwise, or at least questionable, reasons to marry:

• for security
• for money
• for sex
• they may never get another chance
• pregnancy
• their parents want them to
• pressure from a partner
• they want to move away from home, or escape an undesirable situation
• they are depressed and assume marriage will be a solution
• to acquire citizenship
• to have children
• they are lonely
• they need a mother or father for existing children
• “If I don’t get him or her someone else will”
• it is the expected thing to do
• marriage is “romantic”
• for social status
• their present life is dull
• they need someone to structure their lives
• they feel guilty about their single lifestyle
• for peer, social, or professional approval
• they are infatuated with someone
• they have been dating someone regularly for a long time and it would be hard to back out of things now

— Are any of these reasons, your reasons?