UNTIL DEATH DO US PART?

Why are we expected to get married?  What is marriage?  Do we really need to get married to be “fruitful” and “multiply?”  Clearly, humans are capable of procreating without marriage.  Will people be more faithful to their spouse because they are married?  Will people be more responsible for their children if they are married?  Perhaps people would be more faithful and responsible in partnerships they choose to be in, rather than a relationship they have to be in.

When we live in our perfect white picket fenced lives as wife and husband, do we change our expectations of each other?  Is there a difference between how you treated your partner when she was your chick and when she became your wife?  How did your expectations of your guy change after he became your husband? 

I was married for a decade, but I cannot come up with a good answer to the question, “why should people get married?”   Marriage seems to provide a false sense of security that your husband or wife will, until death, be yours.   Is marriage a way to possess the person you love?