Round Table - To Marry, or not to marry... that is the question...

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Good Sunday to you all.  We had a really fun week with First Meetings, and I believe we may still have one or two stories that will be posted today or tomorrow on that theme.  I enjoyed all of it and hope you did as well.
Today I was thinking about, well you can see it at the top.  Marriage.  Concerning the guys, that is.  Should they marry?  Do they marry in your world?  I have always tended to keep them single and available, a selfish move on my part but it works.  Others have created scenarios, entire worlds, where the men marry and have a family, sometimes leading to danger and intrigue of an entirely different nature from what we read and see in non-marital stories.
The two series devoted to that life with which I am familiar are that of rosywonder and mrua7.  Both of them have written novella length accounts of these affairs of the heart, and in fact mrua7 is posting hers now in mfu_map_room.  
So, the question remains, do you like the married with children scenario?  Are you, like me, still primarily happy with single vision? I'd like to know where you stand, how you view this and why, if you can nail that down.

Comments

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

I've read and enjoyed "Coal Miner's Wife" and almost all of mru7's saga series (I've saved her last story to read before the one she's working on with Elliot pregnant again, is finished and posted.

The only thing I miss about these "marriage" stories (sorry mru7) is that the comforting given to the injured partner becomes the wife's role. The other agent is left standing in the background for the major scenes. That doesn't mean that I don't care for the marriage stories, but that piece of very satisfying angst which I crave is missing. The spouse's comforting is just not the same.

[vmccooley.livejournal.com]

That's why I prefer slash or gen. A third party takes the focus away from Napoleon and Illya's relationship (whether friends or lovers).

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

This is my main objection as well. I love U.N.C.L.E. stories, and stories from other fandoms with close friendships, because the friendship is the most important thing and it's those in the friendship always giving the comfort. Wives, sorry to say, just get in the way of that. ;) And since that's my main interest, I doubt I will ever really be interested in any of the stories with wives.

[vmccooley.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. I'll take a great story of friendship over romance any day.