I think if you find the right person to marry, marriage isn´t a terrible thing. The hard part is to actually FIND that right person.

I didn't change my name with my first marriage. I think I'm OK with taking my fiance's last name, but it bothers me that his ex-wife had it first. Like I'm being collected and branded.

I didn't marry a picky eater, but after 13 years of marriage he became Celiac. I cook accordingly because I love him.

This is my second marriage and my first one lasted 30 years. I hate being married. So much work and I'm so tired of it all. I wish brides knew what I know. We could avoid so mamy divorces if they had a picture of marriage as exploitation. Which it is.

My sister will NOT stop talking about how she wishes her bf would propose and how their eventual wedding will be like. He has told her before that he doesnt want to get remarried since his first marriage ended badly (note : he cheated on her with my sister, knocked up my sister, the wife found out and kick his ass out). He cheated on my sis in the beginning and still does now. I want to tell her, but she'll never listen to me about how naive she's being.

Some people (like me) believe that marriage is a sacred institution made before God and if you want to have children, you do that after getting married. My fiancé and I have been engaged for a year and have not had sex, ever. Marriage is most decidedly not just a piece of paper for us. I really wish people would remember that others have very different viewpoints and that it's not fair to generalize or look down on others for having sincere beliefs that hurt no one and are not shoved down anyone's throat (many of our friends have no idea we feel this way).

We smashed cakes in each others faces. I had a good friend who didn't allow cake smashing in the face bc she had read that couples who do that, end up divorced. I thought it was silly. My husband and I have been married for 9 yrs. Her marriage didn't make a year. So for her to have thought cake smashing would result in a divorce was silly.

Friend tells me she's now engaged to boyfriend who has a daughter from first marriage. Outwardly, that's great! Inwardly? Welcome to the death of a thousand cuts. But why say it? You can't tell anyone in love anything.

My awkward wedding story? When we went to the wedding of my childhood best friend (who was also my first boyfriend), my boyfriend congratulated him on his marriage. In front of his new wife, my friend replied, "Congratulations to YOU!" I was mortified. His new wife is a bit of a bitch though (doesn't like him talking to girls, even ones he knew decades prior to knowing her) and I haven't spoken to him in a couple of years now. I wonder if they're still married.

Best marriage advice: "Marriage is what you make it. It will be the best thing you ever do." Worst marriage advice: "The best thing about a marriage is the mistress." (said to my FDH)