Marriage is an institution that has been around since the dawn of time. Many important factors go into making a marriage work. This is not something people should rush into quickly or take for granted. It takes hard work on both sides involved to ensure that a marriage will survive through the hardships it may face. While conducting my interviews I learned that the couples who were married the longest took marriage more seriously than …showed first 75 words of 746 total…

…showed last 75 words of 746 total…type of relationship, then get out and get out quickly. This not only dangerous to a person's life but the verbal can ruin a person's self esteem and make them feel worthless and not wanting to carry on with life, which is just as dangerous. These are the qualities that I believe to be important in making a marriage work and also some things I do not agree with that can happen in some marriages.