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Getting married is one of the happiest days of anyone’s life. Being married is also full of happiness, but there are also many difficulties. It isn’t always easy to be married. You have to put up with your spouse’s bad habits and moods forever. You have to negotiate and compromise on many things from who’s first in the bathroom in the mornings to where you go on vacation. Of course, being married also has many wonderful sides to it. You have a lifelong friend who will love you forever. You share many wonderful times together and support each other through good and bad times. And you grow old together and look back on years of happy memories. I think being married is great for your soul.
* full of ~ = ~로 가득찬/ put up with ~ = ~을 참다(받아들이다)/ negotiate = 협상(교섭)하다; 타결하다/ compromise on ~ = ~에 대해 타협(절충)하다/ lifelong = 일생의, 평생 동안의/ look back on ~ = ~을 뒤돌아보다
* 질문 *
1. Is marriage over-rated?
2. What do you think about gay marriage?
3. What do you think of the concept of no sex before marriage?
4. What is the secret to a happy marriage?
5. Why are fewer and fewer people getting married?
6. How do you think marriage changes people?
7. Do you believe in arranged marriages?
8. Should people stay married if they no longer love each other?
9. What would the world be like if there was no marriage?
10. Is it OK to live together before marriage?
11. What do you think of bigamy and polygamy?
12. Why do so many marriages go wrong?
13. Is your idea of marriage different now compared to when you were a child?
14. Do you think people should agree on a marriage contract before they get married?
