How Does It Feel to be Married?

Soon after you get married, people always ask you - how does it feel to be married? Well, I'm going to tell it to you straight. The perspective of love and forever changes dramatically when you get married and it is something that you can't understand unless you've experienced it. The relationship is just on a whole other level. Nothing really changes (like in the day to day sense) except that the relationship is now on a higher level and a deeper level with its own set of expectations (probably due in part to the importance of the relationship - heck whole families are formed from these relationships). So in essence, everything changes.

It is also a public relationship so that opens up a whole new can of worms. And women that change their names now wear a public badge that says I've made this commitment and as a result have a lot riding on this deal working out (the name changing issue could be a whole another posting). Single people out there have to understand that it isn't the title "married" or the "fancy wedding" that changes things - it is the vow, it is the commitment. It is the pledge to spend the rest of your life with someone else and to love and honor this person. This person that you see everyday, talk to everyday, make love to and argue with, is no longer just a boyfriend or girlfriend. They are now your life mate. They are someone that you vowed to be with for the rest of your life. This choice should not have been one taken lightly - therefore, the relationship cannot be. And in a moment, those two words, "I do", changed everything. I hope I answered the question.