Marriage Alternatives Quotes

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.

You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like.

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

I don't think marriage is in the cards for me. I think it's an archaic institution.

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

Marriage is great for some; it makes them better people. For me, commitment doesn't have to be marriage. It stems from the fact that I have a Westernised world view.

I may or may not get married but I will settle down in a live-in.

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.

Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations.

Many alternatives to traditional marriage have emerged. People feel free to shop around, experimenting with several living arrangements in succession. And when people do marry, they have different expectations and goals.

Of course everyone should have the right to get married. But I think people need to remember sometimes that we don't all need to be the same. There's thousands of different types of relationships that people can have, whether it's completely monogamous or it's not monogamous, or they're married, or they're single or whatever it is.

Live-in relationships are common these days; that's why so many movies are being made on the subject.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.