Married Japanese offer up a ranking of the reasons they ended up getting hitched, supplying a surprisingly romantic selection.
1. You wanted to live together
2. You thought you needed a partner
3. You felt you had reached the right age for marriage
4. You would have regretted letting your partner go for the rest of your life
5.You wanted to appease your parents
6. You’d been dating a while and felt it was time
7. You thought your partner needed you
8. You wanted to protect your partner
9. You wanted children
10. You ended up with children
Those wondering what happened to all the pecuniary motivations need look no further than “14. You saved enough to get married,” “15. Your income increased” and “20. Your income decreased.”
Those conducting the ranking appear to have been too diplomatic to offer “You wanted your partner’s income” or “You wanted to stop working” – other surveys seem to suggest these are fairly major motivators…
| 
Top 20 Anime That Boast The Best Battles
NieR: Automata Brings New Futa (?) To The Fray
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Dead Sexy
Etrian Odyssey V Fences Furiously
Mushroom Lollipop CM Tastefully Phallic
Seitokai Yakuindomo OAD “The Perversion Continues!”
Puzzle & Dragons X OP – “For Kids!?”
Cheerful Yukari Yukata Figure
IdolMaster Nets Korean Live Action TV Drama
Top 20 Anime Deserving of a Second Season
Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin Announced – But…
Strangers Fisting For Candy: “A Pretty Sweet Deal!”
Netoge no Yome Grinds Hard
King Of Fighters XIV Trailer Boasts Breasts & Brawn
Yuzuruha Figure Sexy & Sophisticated
IdolMaster: Platinum Stars Trailer Happier Than Ever
Top 10 Most Anticipated Anime of Spring 2016
Splendid Abuse Eden “A Heaven of Sorts”
Hatsune Miku Ero-MMD Fit & Tight
Dissidia Final Fantasy Arcade Recruits Garland
Marie Rose Cosplay by Mike Undeniably Sexy
Tasha Tracer Cosplay Truly Tantalizing
Witch Craft Works Cosplay by Kagune Intensely Seductive
Kaine Cosplay by Yuricha Flawless
Kasumigaoka Utaha Cosplay Pretty Pure
Goddess of 2ch “Another Bathing Beauty!”
Tantalizing Hestia Cosplay Busts Out
Kashiwazaki Sena Cosplay Pure & Innocent
Minami Kotori Casino Girl Cosplay Takes No Chances
Shimakaze Cosplay by Ema Sakura
I'd get married for GTO's reasons :)
I could be old and she'll be young and fun even as I age more.
I would get married for the very same reasons (same as uran's).
I love the yurilicious Eila/Sanya marriage pic! It is the most interesting part of this entire post.
lol the top 10 reasons are the same reasons why I think people get married
Number 10, tsk tsk.
But I'd have to agree, most of the ones on top are romantic.
Looks pretty average to me.
Not marrying out of love?
This is a pretty disturbing list from a western perspective, but then again we've been corrupted by an endless slew of rom-coms and rom-dramas by hollywood.
Don't believe the Hollywood hype. That's where heart-warming family movies, are performed by dog-cussing, booze-chugging, needle-abusing actors.
One f**ing great example would be LOVE IN TH TIME OF CHOLERA. Its a recommend book
The "because we were in love" answer is mysteriously absent.
marriage isn't all about love
Well it should be about love, and it's a shame that most people don't choose love. I know it doesn't pay the bills but I rather be poor and happy with my partner, than rich and a unhappy slut...
True. People fall in and out of love all the time, as evidenced by the very high divorce rates of many marriages in western countries. Being able to live together with someone without wanting to tear each others' throats out is far more important than a fleeting chemical reaction in your brain such as "love" :p
so much agree to ur shit dude. gutjob anon~
Fuck this, I've been living with my girl together for a year now, and we hadn't had a SINGLE FUCKING quarrel
@Riiku: OH WOW A WHOLE YEAR good job ya want a cookie? If the human lifespan was 15 years long maybe a year would count for something. If you can say the same thing in ten years maybe I'll give you a pat on the back. Maybe.
If you have no quarrels there's something wrong. That means no one is disagreeing or saying what bothers them.
Good luck with that.
A good relationship argues plenty but gets somewhere after the argument and improves things. A bad relationship stagnates with no one being 'bothered' by anything.
LOL... a year....
You didn't quarrel about how to cook your eggs at the three month mark?
You can't eat LOVE afterall
But you CAN love to eat though :D
But you can eat pussy
in china eating pussy is a natural thing
I've thought that wanting to live together (the 1st reason) implies love? :)
Why is Sankakucomplex so bitter about love and relationships? When a ranking result is negative, this site is all "this world is sad" generalizations, but even when it's more positive, it just has to remind everyone of the previous negative ones or use other arguments to shed more bitterness. ~.~"
@Anon at 03:23 - that's because most everyone here is a socially retarded young adult male who even got rejected by his community college's anime club's resident fujoshi landwhale.
Sees theres no War Option in here (After the War In X location I wanted a girl) ^_^
so is this between straight couples or magic using lesbians
(seeing the strike witches pic and all,lol)
Yeah, the pic is terrible.
@Anon 11:58 You're a fucking yuri hater!
Correction The REAL Lamberto, I am the yuri hater.
And you're a fucking yaoi lover. Go fap over your yaoi/shota/trap pics, bitch!
now now boys, let's all settle down and have some family bonding over straight shota, that's something everyone can appreciate.
No, it's a good pic. Very charming depiction of a beautiful couple and their loving relationship.
It's not canon, you yurifags are the worst.
@anon 18:20 You yaoifags are even worse.
OK,again with yaoifags and yurifags =_=,, I love the pic though
It's pure and satisfying :3
Funny how love didn't make the list...
Implications of love aren't difficult to see in some of them. Especially #4. #1 isn't exactly loveless either. Neither is #6 and #8 and, likely, #7.
In Japan, Love is mostly IMPLIED.
Thanks Sankaku Complex for making me to believe it
Love relationships are a shoujo ideal, not reality in Japan. They say love is implied so they can get out of showing their spouse that they love them or so they can get out of making an effort. It's sad to see how almost everyone in Japan treats their relationships. And there is so much infidelity it's not funny. Why? Because there is no love, just duty.
Love is a Western concept and many people who are in "love" fall out of it after they get sick of looking at each other everyday of their lives. Things like convenience, practicality, friendship seem to weather the storm better than the childish, romanticized, Western concept of "love".
I would think "wanting to live together" kinda qualifies as love.
Well I remember a speech by Lee Kuan Yew:
"In western culture you marry the person you love, In asian culture you love the person you marry."
Hm...
In a way, it is true. Past tradition has you get married after a certain age. If you don't want to, your parents will bug you about it or force you into it.
I'm pretty sure that's still going on in quite a few places.
yea, i wouldnt doubt it, but only places would be those untouched by civilization, like middle of africa tribes, or south american tribes.
past traditions also had us sacrifice goats at an alter to appease the god of the land so you may have a bountiful harvest, some even went so far as to have human sacrifices...
that shit stopped for a reason.
Why stop at goats? Other traditions had ritualized wars as excuses to grab people, tie them to an alter, then cut out their hearts... you know, to SAVE THE WORLD.
Then again, a lot of the crap we take for granted now was invented a long time ago. Like wheels.
"in west you marry for love '' in west you marry either on illusion of love and divorse in few years or you knocked the chick up .
"in west you marry for love '' in west you marry either on illusion of love and divorse in few years or you knocked the chick up .
QFT.
How exactly is one different from another?
It's kinda embarrassing to say, but I don't get it.
If there isn't a response that's just "money", this survey is inaccurate.
The former is marrying for love, the latter is learning to love the person you married
asia has it down. love is thickle and can fade. learning to love is better than falling in love...and then falling out.
Forever alone
You're an idiot. You can't just learn to love someone just because you happen to be with them. It's smarter to know you love someone and build on that then enter into a relationship hoping it magically occurs.
That's right, Anonymous, follow your heart! Your emotional outburst proves it will always be magically stable, and if the feeling fades when you already have kids, that's their problem. It might come off as impulsive, but duty and obligation are for suckers.
People who marry without love are just brain dead. Getting with someone out of a sense of duty already shows messed up priorities in life. And marrying someone you don't love is just unwise and to me actually shows that the person is willing to settle for the sake of what society tells them they should be doing. Sharing your life with someone you don't love? That's just moronic on so many levels.
I don't understand the thought process of people who think there is a necessary time limit on love, like the later the timer starts the better off you are.
While I think you have a point with marrying for love, the vast majority of couples that marry that way have a divorce. Arranged marriages have a significantly lower chance of occurring, statistically speaking. Then again, since when do people know what they want anyway?
A higher rate of divorce has nothing to do with whether you marry for love or not. Divorce has other factors, such as how your culture views divorce, the consequences of that divorce, and the pressures said culture puts on relationships.
People saying that arranged marriages are "more successful" just based on the divorce rate aren't looking at the whole picture.
Also, who is to say those people are actually happy?
In short, meaning Asians love their wives.
While westerns love their girlfriends or want to get married or something, or so i think.
@15:09 Anon
In layman terms, western culture, you love the person you marry him/her while asian culture, you marry a stranger and learn to love him/her after that...
Coming from the guy who also thinks -
"In Western culture you vote for your leaders; In Asian cultures I pick my son"
meh I'd take it with a large dose of salt.
Well singapore is a nice place to live in if your in the upper class of citizens, anything below, love wont keep a couple alive. I figured its the same in japan too.