Lifestyle Choices

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Choose two of the following three questions about lifestyles to answer. Reference trends related to the lifestyles in your answers.

o What are healthy versus unhealthy reasons to marry?

Healthy: Love, support (both emotional and financial),

Unhealthy: to avoid loneliness, marry for money, sex,

o What are healthy versus unhealthy reasons to cohabitate?

Healthy

Unhealthy

o What are healthy versus unhealthy reasons to stay single?

Healthy: Postponing marriage for financial and educational purposes

Unhealthy: don’t want anyone to get to close to them, keep distance, afraid of being hurt,

Respond to a classmate who chose the lifestyle that you did not discuss. State why you agree or do not agree with his or her analysis of that lifestyle.

Each lifestyle choice has healthy and unhealthy aspects. Many who remain single do so for a variety of reasons. Healthy reasons for singlehood include furthering an education to stabilize or generate an increase in financial stability. Most single men and women remain single to find a partner who can satisfy all or most of the needs they cannot or chose not to fill on their own. Still, others who remain single may be afraid of commitment or do not want to be monogamous with one person for the rest of their life. Keeping others at a distance because they do not want to share an intimate life with others can only create a lifetime of loneliness and self-doubt, that he or she is not worthy of finding a mate who will understand and accept the person.

Those who choose to marry may do so out of love, respect, financial help, or finding the lifelong partner with whom to spend the rest of his or her life together. Some choose to marry for single reasons which may complicate a marriage; such as financial stability, child out of wedlock, and to avoid loneliness. Others marry because the family says it is time to settle down and raise a family but they are only doing so for the sake of his or her parents. Many marry because they believe it is the right thing to do, even if they are not ready to marry. Marriage is a lifelong commitment to another to love, support, and share a life together.