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

[avery11.livejournal.com]

In general, I don't care for the "married with kids" scenario. The idea that these two agents would have time to create a blissful home life with a family seems like a stretch, given the demands of their profession.

At times these family scenarios are so wholesome and happy that I find them unrealistic. The kids are just too adorable. Of course I'm generalizing--there are some very well-written stories out there.

I enjoy stories with a love interest, or a spouse, but the interaction between the two characters has to feel authentic, and must take into consideration the stress caused by the career the guys have chosen.