Congratulations Iliya! Are you two going anywhere special for a honeymoon? I'm not married but here are the American Wedding traditions I know of: 1. Bachelor party for the groom, strippers should be mandatory imo 2. You're not supposed to see the bride or her gown on the wedding day 3. Some brides have a tradition of wearing: 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue'. 4. After the ceremony the bride throws her bouquet over her shoulder, to the crowd of women, and the one who catches it is supposed to get married next. 5. I hear that during bachelorette parties, some girl usually makes a penis-shaped cake for the bride 6. I think people still throw rice at the couple when they are leaving the church or ceremony. 7. The best man gets to hook up with the maid of honor
Congratz mate! I hope you have a healthy relationship. I'm the type of person who isn't really planning to have kids but I am also on the fritz about getting married or not. Nearly 70% of all married men and 60% of married women have had affairs. Thats two out of every three marriages. Every ten to thirteen seconds someone gets divorced. 50% of women and 33% of men remain angry for ten years after a divorce. Women have more trouble starting new relationships than divorced men do. More than 90% of divorces in long-standing marriages involve infidelities some time during the marriage. More than 50% may be involved in a current affair, yet only 25% cite an affair as an actual reason for divorce. 80% of those who divorce during an affair regret the decision. Over 75% who marry partners in an affair eventually divorce. The divorce rate and ratio of infidelity are much higher among marriage partners in an affair. The average affair lasts two to four years. If an affair becomes public it is doomed. If an affair replaces the marriage, it is subject to the same emotional stresses as the marriage but is twice as likely to fracture. An affair prevents binding ties from being formed. Eventually it has nowhere to go. Sooner or later it will suffocate in secrecy. Affairs die for the same reason as marriage, lack of intimacy.
Looks like a list compiled by those trying to justify not getting married j/k Anyway, are these little gems from American statistics?
You can eliminate 11 of your 14 concerns by entering an open relationship. (Cheating is only cheating if you are breaking the rules.) Your extramarital encounters do not need to be exclusive either: when people interest both of you, invite them home. Just make sure you buy a big bed.
