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]

These men work so hard to protect the innocents and each other in the process. It seems like they deserve a chance at having families of their own; they've earned that. Who would carry on the Kuryakin line if he had no children? (Most authors have him orphaned and without living siblings.)

So many authors have shown the envy and ache in their hearts when they see fathers with children or married couples. They've sacrificed so much to become top agents in their field.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

So many authors have shown the envy and ache in their hearts when they see fathers with children...
Yep, that's what doomed affairs are for, the children they discover late in life ;) Of course I gave Illya a daughter he knew about but couldn't have contact with... So many years of regret. How's that for angst ;)

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

That story left me in tears. Now that's ANGST! *grin*

[avery11.livejournal.com]

You've hit on a very good point. Wanting an idyllic family life for Illya and Napoleon is understandable, because we know what they go through in the service of humanity. An agent's job is unforgiving. The men do what they do because they believe in what UNCLE stands for, and because they refuse to give up hope for a better future. To make things even more challenging, they do it all in secret, without thought of reward or applause.

It's no wonder so many writers want them to have a rosy, idyllic home life, as a balance for what they endure in that other, shadowed world.