1. If you need to marry just to take the wedding ceremony and party off your “Bucket List”.
2. If you need to marry as a right of passage to become or to prove you are an “adult”.
3. If I need to escape current controlling or unhappy family situation.
4. If you feel no one else will ever ask you to marry again.
5. If all your friends are getting married and you do not want to be left out and slide into it.
6. If your child custody will be affected and you feel obligated to marry to keep your custody rights.
7. If you are escaping a troubled relationship or a prior marriage that you are still emotionally tied to and you believe it is unbearable to live alone.
8. If you or your partner is drug or other addiction dependent and you are getting married in hopes of resolving that issue.
9.  If you hope that marrying  will eliminate other major disagreements or value conflicts in your couple.
10. If you hardly know each other and one of you is being deployed soon and feel the need to marry before deployment.

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