I completely accept your point of view, I was just giving my own which is that I don't really see the point of marriage at all but I can kind of see why for children it is good for them if their parents are happily married.

I think if two people want to get married but they don't want children that's fine. The case you have described is difficult, very difficult. I have known cases like this and the marriage has never worked because the desire of the one partner to have children becomes stronger than the mutual desire to preserve the existing marriage. I guess its a biological thing in more ways than one. Also, the pressure continues to grow because there is only a finite time for the woman to bear children.

I guess what I am saying is that the marriage in your scenario is doomed if one person wants children and the other doesn't.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi