Many Mainline Protestant churches are open and affirming to gay and lesbian couples.

Many researchers contend that one of the biggest reasons for cohabitation is that couples no longer believe in marriage.

Many cohabiting couples may also end up getting married due to pressure from their parents.

Many of the compulsory dances which are still competed today were developed by British dancers in the 1930s, and 12 of the first 16 World Championships in ice dance were won by British couples.

Many also contend that the fact that civil unions are often not understood can cause difficulty for same-sex couples in emergency situations.

Many couples incorporate bondage into their sex lives, often sporadically but sometimes more regularly, and find sexual bondage to be relationship-affirming.

Many Internet websites that cater for swinging couples now exist, some boasting hundreds of thousands of members.

Many couples enter swinging while in secure relationships, providing added motivation to avoid excessive health risks.

Many couples that would not consider themselves active in BDSM are familiar with this kind of play: the use of silk scarves, feathers, ice, massage oils, and other similar implements.

Many more couples, however, experience involuntary childlessness for at least one year: estimates range from 12 % to 28 %.

According to the HRC's website, " Many same-sex couples want the right to legally marry because they are in love — many, in fact, have spent the last 10, 20 or 50 years with that person — and they want to honor their relationship in the greatest way our society has to offer, by making a public commitment to stand together in good times and bad, through all the joys and challenges family life brings.

Many jurisdictions also deny rights and benefits to same-sex couples, including custodial and adoption rights for children, Social Security benefits, and automatic durable power of attorney and hospital spousal rights.

Many couples share their fantasies to feel closer and gain more intimacy and trust, or simply to become more aroused or effect a more powerful physical response.

Many couples have rules such as: No emotional attachment, must use protection, never in " our bed / home ", no illegitimate children, and / or must or must not know who the other person is, and so on.

Many in this group were close friends and / or ( in the cases of Goffin-King, Mann-Weil and Greenwich-Barry ) married couples, as well as creative and business associates — and both individually and as duos, they often worked together and with other writers in a wide variety of combinations.

Many observant married couples will also not touch one another in public.

Many couples within open relationships are dual-career, meaning that both primary partners have a stable job and / or a career.

Many couples consider open relationships, but choose not to follow through with the idea.

Many Western couples became open to the idea of adopting children from abroad.

Many couples follow the Jewish tradition of hiddur mitzvah which calls for ceremonial objects such as the ketubah to be made as beautiful as possible.

Many Christian couples who cannot have children thus can go for IVF, with both the husband's sperm and the wife's egg and this is in line with the church's teaching.

Many of the commercials depicted couples passionately kissing in a romantic setting for an unusually long time, always including one kisser who then must chase his departing ride.

Many cards were designed to appeal to the soldier who wished to send a card home to his sweetheart and these cards showed couples.

Many couples have their wedding invitations shipped there in order to have the town's postmark applied to them.

Many stores in the U. S. provide a list of choices to choose from.

Many bands choose not to play live.

Many riders choose to ride together in groups of the same skill level to take advantage of drafting.

Many owners may choose to shorten the barrels down to NFA-lengths, and register them as " short barrel rifles " SBRs.

Many casual disc golfers often choose whether to play with the 2-meter rule at the beginning of a round.

Many choose to protect their identities and reputation by remaining anonymous.

Many LDS young men choose to serve a two year proselytizing mission, during which they dedicate all of their time to the church, without pay.

Many players rely on superstition or tradition to choose tile pairings.

Many people choose to retire when they are eligible for private or public pension benefits, although some are forced to retire when physical conditions no longer allow the person to work any more ( by illness or accident ) or as a result of legislation concerning their position.

Many web sites that serve SVG images, such as Wikipedia, also provide the images in a raster format, either automatically by HTTP content negotiation or by allowing the user directly to choose the file.

Many Linux distributions used to include a configuration tool that was easier to use ( such as Debian's debconf ) or autodetected most ( if not all ) settings ( Red Hat Linux and Fedora's Anaconda, SuSE's YaST and Mandrake Linux used to choose this path ).

Many students choose to focus on a particular area in order to gain deeper knowledge in a specific discipline.

Many choose to use a more mathematically versatile formulation that utilizes the complex number plane.

Many customers now choose to salt food themselves, given current public health concerns about salt intake.

Many are associated with international aid and voluntary donation, but there are also NGOs that choose not to take funds from donors and try to generate funding in other ways, such as selling handicrafts or charging for services.

Many critics feel that they now have a great plurality of methods and approaches from which to choose.

Many still choose the traditional form of Friday penance.

Many people choose to learn Carnatic music along with Bharatanatyam as they go together.

Many people choose to live near relatives, exchange sizable gifts with relatives, and favor relatives in wills in proportion to their relatedness.

Many fans told Doohan over the years that it was he who inspired them to choose engineering as a profession.

Many young university graduates and students also choose to live in the Clapham area, a tradition carried over from the days when some University of London halls of residence were situated there.

Many green anarchists choose to focus not on philosophical issues for a future society, but on the defense of the earth and social revolution in the present.

Many residents and merchants choose to avoid this route simply because of the Welsh mountain of which the highway was paved upon.