Thank you for the replies.

My Sister told my friend her husband was cheating on her before I could do it because she thought it was the right thing to do and she has known the two of them longer than me and was very pissed off with my friend’s husband when she found out. She said he’s a male so she wasn’t overly surprised by his actions but she didn’t suspect him of cheating on our friend and if she sees him again she is going to personally have a nice talk to him. Since then our friend has moved out and is living in her cousin’s house while she works out what she is going to do with her life. They have four children and they are with their Mum and haven’t spoken to their Dad since she confronted him over it. She was upset but she had her suspicions about it because he was telling her he had to go to work at strange hours and his mobile phone bills had skyrocketed in the last six months and he wouldn’t tell her why.

As for marriage, I think it depends on the couple if it means something or it doesn’t.

Marriage was very important to my Wife and she wanted us to have a big flashy wedding with all our friends and family (apart from my Mum and Dad) and we ended up spending thousands of dollars on it and I even got a band there so I could sing a song I wrote for her. After my Wife and I got engaged I lived with her and my step daughter for three years before we got married and I think living together before marriage was a great idea for us in the long run and more couples could benefit from doing it too instead of rushing out and getting married because if you can’t live with someone you definitely shouldn’t marry them or that marriage isn’t going to last long. Most of my friends have been married to their partners for 15 to 20 years and my Wife’s Uncle has been married to her Aunt for forty years and the two of them have been best friends since they were 9 so I would say marriage still means something to some people.