the rest of one's life.  Now this is wonderful if the love between the two people lasts and they desire to stay together for the rest of their lives.  But people change and the two people who end up looking at each other down the track can be very different people to those who looked at each other lovingly (hopefully) at the alter. I'm a bit different though, because I hold the belief that people come into our lives for a reason and a season.  Many life lessons are learnt during the practical workshop of relationships of any kind. I am not an advocate of till death do us part, nor for better or for worse. I know I sound like a negative cynic, but I prefer to be known as a realist.  I am married, but not for the right reasons (14 years married). I consider it to be of paramount importance that any two people in a relationship love each other with all their hearts and want to be together into the future.  If marriage is what they desire and it works for them, then great.  But if it doesn't then I have no issue with that. In my experience many married couples display less connectness to each other, less fidelity and less love in action than many committed but unmarried couples.  Thank-you for reading my point of view.  Isn't freedom of choice and freedom of speech great?!  Warm regards. Wendy I don't think marriage is outdated -