I fell in love with my husband.
And, a miracle happened.
he also fell in love with me. I was fortunate enough
to find a grown man who was capable of loving fully
with all of his heart. I could not imagine life
without him. And when he proposed - I accepted.
His honesty, devotion and unconditional love bound
us together in an inseparable state of familial bliss
that has been unshaken to this day.

I realise that for some people marriage is not important
while others desperately want to get married.

I am happy that I was able to get married. I cannot imagine
my life any other way.

Dear Suse,

Thank You for answering my question on how
important marriage is to you.

I understand why you would not want to
re-marry. I feel the same way.

Dear Mr Opinion,

With all due respect -

I'm interested in what marriage means
to you not your wife.

So how about telling me?

Hi there FOXY...

My first marriage ended in absolute grief and sorrow. My second is very very happy, and though I have great companionship, I do wonder if the variance in our age's will cause any problems in the future?

I must say I'm a very lucky to have married my current wife, we get on very well indeed, with similar interests, and a similar circle of friends. Educationally, she's miles ahead of me, with an under-graduate degree from a prestigious North America University, and her second degree from a notable uni. here. She excels in Mathematics, and the Sciences, specifically Physics, so we can never have a legitimate academic discussion because of the wide disparity of our educational standards. They do say opposites do attract!

I must admit, I'm the luckiest bloke in the world, to have convinced my wife to marry me, though I suspect she's (covertly) undertaking a Masters in Anthropology, majoring on deviant behaviour, by silly ol' buggers who've now retired from the coppers? Seriously though, I couldn't have asked for a better wife with whom to spend the remainder of my life with, I'm so very lucky.

Dear O Sung Wu,

Thank You for sharing how important marriage
is to you.

I'm so happy for you and your wife.

And luck had nothing to do with it, I'm sure.

You're a lovely bloke and she, I imagine, she thinks that
she's the lucky one.

Dear Josephus,

Not every couple who marries has or even wants children.
Not all marriages unfortunately are happy. There are
many adults who are dysfunctional. And children often
develop relationships with other genders with members
of their extended families. They don't miss out.
It's wrong to generalise.

Dear runner,

This discussion is not about rape. It's about
the importance of marriage.
Could you contribute something on the subject?

Dear OTB,

I can assure you that I genuinely did not want
this discussion to be simply about gay marriage.
That's why I stressed that fact in my opening post.
But because gay marriage comes under the umbrella of
marriage and how important it is to some people -
I thought I would stress the fact that this
should not just be about Gay marriage.

Now how about you commenting on what marriage means
to you. After all the importance of marriage is the
issue here. If you have nothing to say or if it's
not important to you - why did you enter this
discussion? If its to poke fun at me -
That's nasty.

Dear Foxy,

When it comes to marriage, love and relationships, we humans behave more like birds than any other living species.

Marriage is just a contract governing the social relationship between the participants as well as sanctioning their sexual access to each other, the social status of their offspring, and the class and sociopolitical relationship between the wife-giving and the wife-taking groups.

But it is the idea that we behave like birds when acting out our evolutionary driven desire to procreate in order to transmit our genes that most fascinates me.

Does that answer your question?