[Margaret Pilkington]

I think there are many people who focus on the wedding rather than the relationship.

I really don't mind what other people do in their relationships, but to me, it was important to be married.
Marriage has become disposable like many other things in life today........let's get married...if it doesn't work then we can get divorced. That seems to be the attitude of those who do get married today.........and it means that when they hit trouble they don't bother to try and work it out.....because there is an easy(or so it might seem at first glance) exit. Any relationship, takes work by both parties......some people will give it up rather than do the maintenance.

When my sister and her boyfriend started living together, my father went nuts and I defended her saying that although they were living in the same house it didn't mean they were sharing the same bed.....I told him that it was his bad mind.

One of the nurses I worked with also came to me(quite sheepishly) to tell me that she was moving in with her boyfriend.....and that she wanted to tell me before I heard it from anyone else.....she said she didn't want me to think badly of her. I don't know why she would think that I would think badly of her.
My morals are mine.....I don't expect other people to live by my values...which are old fashioned. If I were single today and of marriageable age I would do nothing different.