<human>: So we have been dealing with various issues over the past year and a half.  I will say that mostly we like being together, probably eighty percent of the time, but we have also had major conflicts and have frequently talked about breaking up.  Most of our issues involve trust, communication, money and cultural issues (I'm a white american and she is asian).  
 
She feels that the only way to move forward with the relationship is to get married.  Once we're married the discussion of breaking up will go away, because we have made a commitment, and we will be forced to solve our other issues.  We have discussed this some and I kind of see her reasoning but we both agree this could be difficult and there's no guarantee it will work.  From my perspective you should get married after you have solved all the relationship problems, not before, but I also understand in her culture it's a little bit different.  People tend to get married fast there and work out all the issues afterwards.  
 
She has basically given me an ultimatum that either we need to get married and really commit to solving our problems or we should just break up.  In her mind 18 months is plenty of time to make a decision, again, here in America 18 months is nothing.  I'm wondering what other people think of this.  Is marriage a good idea or not?  I care about this person and I don't want to lose her but I really feel like I'm not ready for marriage yet and this doesn't seem like the right way to go about it to me.

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<bot>: Girlfriend thinks we need to get married to solve our relationship problems, I'm not so sure.  What does Reddit think?