Does marriage simplify life and cohabitation or make it even more difficult? Of course, there are a lot of different opinions concerning this problem, and whether marriage will become a lifelong burden or an endless happiness depends, I suppose, on concrete people and concrete conditions and circumstances of life. In present times whether your marriage will be lifelong or one-week long also depends on aforesaid… Requirements and the notion of happiness are so different for each person, that it becomes impossible to identify or find out what is the pledge of happy marriage.
In my opinion marriage can be both lifelong burden and endless happiness simultaneously. Life is impossible without problems. Even under the condition of great love to your spouse, being married already means to be a kind of burdened or responsible for somebody or something. This responsibility can be expressed in decisions making, responsibility for your husband/wife, children etc. Somebody manages to turn such difficulties into pleasant troubles, but some people not. There are a lot of definitions for marriage, but, personally for me, the most accurate is the only one, which sounds next: marriage – is an agreement of interdependence of 2 people. Earth life is based on the principle that nobody owes us anything, even if some people think that it is not so.
People get married for pleasure and security, they want to be cared for. Moreover, I think that each girl or woman wants to be somebody's wife and mother, and those who claim that they don't means that their feelings were badly hurt or they were offended before.
Benjamin Franklin once said: “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” If person can follow these wise words, he or she maybe would manage to make his or her marriage life quite happy.