I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm more afraid of marriage than death.
The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.
People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
I've always been wary of marriage.