Well, my marraige story isn't a good one to compare, but it's definetly affected my decision about whether to get married again or not.

I got married at 23 to someone who I KNEW wasn't right for me, but I never thought I'd get any better. My self-esteem back then was soooo low. We had a Halloween party and told everyone to come in costume. We lived with another couple who had just gotten married. It was the party house in our circle of friends. At this party we suprised everyone with a vampire wedding. I was dressed in a black prom dress, with a black veil, black roses, etc. My friend who got ordained online married us. Yep.

I left him 4 months later. I was unhappy about our economic situation and tried to talk to him about it and he went berserck and before he could hit me, I was gone. I hid in the same town for 4 years, afraid to see him.

A couple months ago, I got a call from my uncle who said he'd gotten a strange call from a woman trying to find me to sign her son's divorce papers. My family didn't know I had gotten married. That was an interesting story to tell.

My divorce was final about 2 weeks ago. I was with the guy for a year and a half before I married him, 4 months after we were married, and then separated for 4 years and now we're divorced.

Will I marry again? I'm about 50/50 on that one. I'm back with my childhood sweetheart right now. If he asks me sometimes I say he'll get a big fat YES and other times I'm not so sure.

My mom and grandma told me when I was a teenager to live by myself for at least a year. It's been a little over a year now and I LOVE it. Not sure I want that to change, at least not anytime soon.

I'm comfortable with who I am now, and I won't settle this time. I don't think I'd be settling with my boyfriend, but I still have doubts. We've been back together now for a little over 6 months, so we're way far off from talking marriage. He knows I've made the decision to not have children, and he's ok with that. But there are some pretty major differences in our lifestyles that I'm not sure I can "bend" with for the rest of my life.

So....I can't give you a concrete answer. I'd say try not to think about yet until you know for sure. That's what I'm trying to do.

There's my marraige story in a nutshell for ya. =)