I married my best friend after a decade of friendship, after a very prolonged engagement, and now we've been married for for 13 years come august. I think marriage is taken more lightly now adays than it ever has in the past. We didn't marry for religion, we married for our enjoyed companionship. We are now so intertwined in each others lives it would be hard to imagine life without her in my daily existence. I am all for marriage, but you have to truly know the person before you really go down that road randy.