What do you think about long term relationships?

is it as relevant now (in the present space age) as it was then, when people had less mind-numbing challenges and aspirations? i had a conversation earlier where one of my colleagues had this to say that girls/women are more financially independent now and can take crucial life decisions more confidently, hence they would not be very much interested in long term relationships. your comments and inputs on this? by long term relationships i mean, braving the ups and downs of married life and getting to grow old with each other. by that i mean no issue of divorce to begin with.What do you think about long term relationships?
Definately women are more independant today. So yes, I guess they would be less likely to be dependant on a man like in the past. But if a girl/woman truly loved a guy she would stay forever. It depends on the morals and ethics of the girl/woman. How she was bought up. I am a 49 yr woman who has been married 30 years and will die that way, but I do worry about today's young people. I think today marriage is too disposable. Couples today don't seem to want to try to sort out an argument, just get divorced. I don't think the marriage vows today carry much devotion. Hey, let;s get married and then when we disagree we will call it quits. Where is the responsibility and respect to each other and especially the LOVEWhat do you think about long term relationships?
I know that I wouldn't mind being in one, if I could find a nice girl. and I'm a girl, too.
i firmly believe that a basic human need is love and financial independence doesnt buy you that.





I also think that relationships based on equality can be far more satisfying that relationships based on dependence.





I do think that people today don't work hard enough at relationships. They think that all relationships should be like fairytales where you always agree and are always happy. A strong relationship really requires hard work on both sides to overcome difference and work out where compromises need to be made. Its about giving as well as taking.





I'm not 100% sure why things are like this but perhaps the ease and popularity of divorce does have something to do with it.
I think one of the problems that affect long term relationships is the longer life span. When you think of it in terms of what you want at 20 or 25 and what is important to you at 45-50 may be very different. Used to be people married young, and life expectancy was only 40's -50's. Now, as children leave home, parents are left with a lot of years to fill. Some couples are able to make those years a joint adventure but for those who aren't growing and changing in the same way, often it's divorce.


The mobile society also contributes. When you can move around the world if you want, it's hard to stay down on the farm, and hard to know that a partner is going to feel the same way 10 yrs from now.





I liked Kathryn Hepburn's philosophy. Men and women shouldn't live together but in adjacent houses. Then there was both space and time for togetherness.
Depends upon individual concerned, sometimes people are most satisfied and happy in long term relationships, while some have a nature that tends them towards short term relationships, also the character of your spouse also defines it, whether he or she is so much stable in relationships or not...........
Great, if you can find the right person and they can find you.
It is true that woman are more financially independent and can make decisions that at one time was a 'mans'; job, we can also do home repairs, check oil....etc,,,


But this does not mena that a womans emotional needs/wamnts and desires are being met,


Me being an independent female(not a feminist) and able to take care of what needs to be done,,,,still desires a male partner,,,,this is the operative word,,


when a woman is able to hold her own, it is an equal partnership that in my opinion, the male has his role and the female hers, they are a team,


Just from one of millions out here,,,