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Many women are on the hunt for a husband at all times. When they go out on a first date with a man, they think about how their first name and their date¡¯s last name would sound together. They think about how their children will look, and what their china pattern will be. They have already pictured themselves walking down the aisle towards this man who they barely even know yet. Many women say that they have been dreaming about their fairytale wedding ever since they were playing with dolls as a little girl. It¡¯s no wonder that so many women are prone to seeking a mate to settle down with for the long term. Marriage is touted as paragon of adulthood by many in our society. Unfortunately, while many females are raised to gear up for marriage, many men are raised in quite an opposite manner. Society tells men to fear marriage and commitment. The night before a man gets married is often referred to as ¡°his last night of freedom.¡± It¡¯s not surprising that so many men are commitment-phobic and unwilling to settle down with one woman. If you are a woman in a serious, committed relationship with a man who is deathly afraid of getting married, you may be throwing your arms in the air and wondering what you should do. Should you wait it out in this relationship, hoping that his feelings about marriage will change, or should you break it off and hope that you can find a man who is interested in settling down and getting married?
First of all, your boyfriend isn¡¯t a statistic; he¡¯s a human being, and he has his own unique background and attitudes that are shaping his desire not to get married. You can¡¯t just judge him as if he is merely one of many men who fears commitment. You have to understand his personal perspective on marriage. Ask him about his impressions of marriage on the whole, and ask him about his personal experiences with marriage. Did his parents get divorced when he was growing up? If so, you need to be sensitive to his trepidation. Children who were the product of divorced parents often recall that the time of their parent¡¯s divorce was painful and traumatic. He may be very afraid to get married because he has convinced himself that marriage inevitably leads to divorce. If his parents are married but they are in an unloving marriage, he may have the fear that the love in your relationship will surely fade over time. Ingrained feelings like this are hard to get past, so you may suggest that the two of you invest in some couple¡¯s therapy so that you can both work through your attitudes and beliefs on the subject of marriage.
If you are in a rocky relationship, and you want to get married because you are certain that mystically your relationship will be picture perfect once the wedding bells ring, then your boyfriend may be onto something with his belief that the two of you shouldn¡¯t get hitched right now. It seems so obvious that you shouldn¡¯t get married unless you are in a healthy relationship, but so many couples make the mistake of doing exactly that. You love your boyfriend, and you so desperately want things to work out that you think that a bold move should be made to solidify your connection to each other. The fact of the matter is that a marriage should be built on a foundation of a loving, healthy, trusting, and mature relationship ¨C and nothing less than that will suffice. Do not push for marriage before you are ready. In fact, don¡¯t even bring it up until your relationship is in the right kind of place. Don¡¯t build a house on sand.
If you have been in a serious and committed relationship with a man for a long period of time, and your attempts to bring up the subject of marriage are repeatedly being rebuffed by your boyfriend, then you need to make a decision: to stay or not to stay. The two of you love each other, presumably, but you disagree about the need to make your union official in the eyes of the law. If you are with a man who is opposed to marriage altogether, and you are a woman who strongly believes that she wants marriage to be a major part of her life, then you have to put yourself first, and end the relationship. Unless you are content with giving up your dream (and you should never ever be content with that), you need to go out and start pursuing it ¨C with someone else. The bottom line is that even if you are part of a couple, you are always an individual, and you have to do what is right for you and for your future. |
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