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Marriage...

I don't want to get married until looooong after college. Sometime around age 30 would be fine. For my first two years of college I went to a Christian college, and there was so much emphasis socially on getting married. It was the "in" thing to do, which disgusted me. We are young, and should be learning more about ourselves and work on our relationship with God more. Besides, it seems a lot of the time that Christian college aged kids just get married so sex is ok. That , to me seems silly. I'm sure when God wrote up the rules he didn't want people running to the loopholes, aka to get married. i don't know. I'm fully aware decent people do get married during their college years, but in my situation I don't see too many cases of that. As for me, I'm working on getting to know myself a lot better first. :)
 
As Much as I'm looking forward to meeting my future wife, I think I'll wait at least until my senior year if the situation arose. While you're in college, you should focus on the thing your paying for, the classes. Plus, I think Dawn had a great point. I agree that a number of people, even Christians, get married with some wrong motives.
 
During Graduate work, because that would be more flexible than during college.
 
I'm focusing on my studies for now, and if I had a significant other, I think I'd wait until after I graduated to get married... there's enough stress in college trying to get all my reading and papers done on time... I wouldn't have the energy or the time to give to focus on being a good wife.

While I'm at a Christian/Catholic college (and hoping to meet compatible members of the opposite sex), I've been focusing on growing friendships, rather than romantic relationships... as above, being a student comes before romance, but at the same time I recognize that I'm in a good place to find like-minded friends and shouldn't completely ignore the opportunity.
 
Instead of focusing on the "time", I'm more focused on the "who"... patientce is a virtue! Even if ya can't spell it :-D
 
"Instead of focusing on the "time", I'm more focused on the "who"... patientce is a virtue! Even if ya can't spell it"


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True enough. That was VERY well said :smt045


Brynn
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For me I want to wait until I am either in my last year or just finished with school, hopefully not too long after. I have a lot of friends who just got married this year and this is their last semester and it is working great for all of them.
 
never hehehe im not the marrying type its also kinda scary and awkward for me :-? not to mention I read in the bible one of the letters paul wrote saying how its better to be single then you don't have to face the everyday troubles married people do.
 
Save yourself the hassle and DONT GET MARRIED AT ALL. EVER. Seriously why worry about kids and having to please someone else when you can do what you want and please yourself and mainly please GOD?
 
Timothy said:
Woah, never marry at all... Now if no one ever got married at all, how would we be fruitful and multiply?
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Um I never plan to get married or have kids. Oh and thats sort of the point because they are too many people here ;)
 
Too many people? Sothose who are fruitful and multiply through a marraige as God told Adam and Eve to do, are now not pleasing God?(This is just putting the point from both posts together.)
 
Timothy said:
Too many people? Sothose who are fruitful and multiply through a marraige as God told Adam and Eve to do, are now not pleasing God?(This is just putting the point from both posts together.)
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Eh look at the homeless and those that can't get jobs. Those are good example.
 
That's just like blaming cows for obesity...Homelessness is hard to fix not because we have too many poeple, but because our society is one that looks at them with eyes that says they need to take care of themselves. However, and person looking for a Job could be solved by getting over their pride and Working at McDonalds. I work maintenance on my campus, is it a glamour Job that brings in the big bucks, certainly not, but it's money and I live quite welll off it. Marriage isn't the problem, people's sinful selfish hearts are.
 
CoreyRazz said:
Save yourself the hassle and DONT GET MARRIED AT ALL. EVER. Seriously why worry about kids and having to please someone else when you can do what you want and please yourself and mainly please GOD?
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Giving up marriage (i.e., celibacy "for the sake of the Kingdom of God" (cf. Matthew 19 something, I think) is NOT primarily so one can please themselves (this entirely selfish notion is utterly repulsive to the Christian lifestyle...), giving up marriage is "for the sake of the Kingdom of God"-- it is a GREAT sacrifice of a great earthly good (designed by God) : marriage.
 
Timothy said:
That's just like blaming cows for obesity...Homelessness is hard to fix not because we have too many poeple, but because our society is one that looks at them with eyes that says they need to take care of themselves. However, and person looking for a Job could be solved by getting over their pride and Working at McDonalds. I work maintenance on my campus, is it a glamour Job that brings in the big bucks, certainly not, but it's money and I live quite welll off it. Marriage isn't the problem, people's sinful selfish hearts are.
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Do the words bad economy and immigration ring a bell at all? Ponder that one for a moment.

@ CatholicXian: I was looking at from more of an anti-social point of view.
 
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