Was the event of your getting conceived the decisive factor in your parents' getting married? Was/is the marriage a happy one?

Yes, 69 years and I often wonder how many of them were really happy ones.

So glad to hear it. 

No, but my older brother being conceived (this was the late 1950s in the Midwest USA) prompted my parents' marriage.

It was not pretty. On the whole, I think they would have been better off going their separate ways. But times were different back then.

I don´t know , I am adopted.

My adoptive parents were married when I arrived.

They had a happy marriage.

They were indeed.

I'd like to think that perhaps you were responsible for their happiness, or at least added to it. :)

Thank you. It appears that "back on track" is largely linear; most of my siblings and cousins chose the less orderly option, they're on the same path taught by the examples of past generations.

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No, I was the third of four children. And no, it wasn't a happy marriage. Still isn't.

My parents were never married. Complicated story.

No. and not always. But my brothers and I all had our kids in wedlock, as far as we know.

My parents were married for four years before I was born. They divorced when i was two.

"... as far as we know." Was that qualifier added deliberately?

That's indeed sad.

Hasn't having multiple kids without getting married at all become a kind of trend amongst Western youth? No offence intended to anyone who reads this. 

Yeah. I worked through it though. :)

My parents were married in 1958. I was conceived in 1961. Yes, their marriage was a happy one, and it still would be if my dad was still alive today.

That's really nice to hear, Andy. 

Yes, for many people, marriage has become less and less important.

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I'm probably the only reason my parents got married. They shouldn't have. 

My family line had a long history of people doing things in the wrong order. Having children before building a best is tops on that list, it goes back to the 1940s or 1950s as far as I know. Oh, by the way, the buck stopped with me, and thankfully, my own children learned from my example.

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Thank you, I appreciate your candour.

It's good to hear your family is back on the rails, so to speak.

Yes, I'm the sole reason they got married right before I was born... they made me feel I was a burden however, in any way possible... they also absolutely despise each other and have mental health issues, so it is not a happy marriage, and made my life feel unworthy.