Marriage - is there any point?
I'm sure that went down well with the female population.
Jul 3rd 2009 | 7:52 pm
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Re: Marriage - is there any point?
Your way, to avoid a relationship that may end, may actually work for a few, but not all.
Jul 3rd 2009 | 7:57 pm
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Re: Marriage - is there any point?
Dean believes all women are money grabbing, marry for the wrong reason, will run off with someone else and are out to bleed a man dry.
Quite a few posters on here are happily married
Quite a few posters on here believe in marriage as a form of mutual commitment
Quite a few posters on here wouldn't marry Dean if he was a millionaire, wrapped in gold and shit money on a daily basis
I reckon your wife left you for the milkman Dean. You need councelling to get over it mate
Looks like it's a wind up folks
Jul 3rd 2009 | 7:58 pm
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Re: Marriage - is there any point?
Your way, to avoid a relationship that may end, may actually work for a few, but not all.
Jul 3rd 2009 | 8:13 pm
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Re: Marriage - is there any point?
sorry couldn't resist that
to be fair each to their own. Marriage means more to some than others, so goodluck to you and as long as you're happy with your life that's all that matters
Jul 3rd 2009 | 8:20 pm
#249
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Re: Marriage - is there any point?
Dean, I meant my post as a jest to calm things down mate as we don't want to have to close the thread.
Keep happy, however that might be
Keep happy, however that might be
Jul 3rd 2009 | 8:24 pm
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Re: Marriage - is there any point?
Some interesting posts on this thread. I think that marriage is a nice ideal but it's pretty difficult/nay impossible for most to sustain forever. I agree that monogamy is not 'natural', rather a social construct but, again, a nice ideal.
I'm divorced myself and pretty much everyone in my family is on their second or third marriage which tends to dilute the validity somewhat (apart from my grandparents and I reckon given the time over again my nan would have given him the boot lol!).
I've been with my OH for six years and am a bit scared to take the plunge again. Though never say never!
Jul 3rd 2009 | 8:25 pm
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Jul 3rd 2009 | 8:28 pm
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Re: Marriage - is there any point?
I got married because if I had had a child out of wedlock I would have been put in prison ......
Jul 3rd 2009 | 8:33 pm
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Re: Marriage - is there any point?
Your logic does not follow at all.
You cannot know how others view their relationships or marriage, nor can you presume to say that people who are still (in their opinion) happily married are telling porkies.
These are your opinions. But it's fair to say that your opinion is by far in the minority, not only on here, but in society in general. If it was such a crock, then the general population wouldn't fall for it.
I think what it comes down to is that you have a severe aversion to commitment or longer term relationships, which colours your view & therefore you proclaim that no marriage is successful, and there can be no successful long term relationship. That's fine for you, but it doesn't mean it holds true for everyone else, as you are claiming.
You cannot know how others view their relationships or marriage, nor can you presume to say that people who are still (in their opinion) happily married are telling porkies.
These are your opinions. But it's fair to say that your opinion is by far in the minority, not only on here, but in society in general. If it was such a crock, then the general population wouldn't fall for it.
I think what it comes down to is that you have a severe aversion to commitment or longer term relationships, which colours your view & therefore you proclaim that no marriage is successful, and there can be no successful long term relationship. That's fine for you, but it doesn't mean it holds true for everyone else, as you are claiming.
Jul 3rd 2009 | 8:54 pm
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Re: Marriage - is there any point?
Your logic does not follow at all.
You cannot know how others view their relationships or marriage, nor can you presume to say that people who are still (in their opinion) happily married are telling porkies.
These are your opinions. But it's fair to say that your opinion is by far in the minority, not only on here, but in society in general. If it was such a crock, then the general population wouldn't fall for it.
I think what it comes down to is that you have a severe aversion to commitment or longer term relationships, which colours your view & therefore you proclaim that no marriage is successful, and there can be no successful long term relationship. That's fine for you, but it doesn't mean it holds true for everyone else, as you are claiming.
You cannot know how others view their relationships or marriage, nor can you presume to say that people who are still (in their opinion) happily married are telling porkies.
These are your opinions. But it's fair to say that your opinion is by far in the minority, not only on here, but in society in general. If it was such a crock, then the general population wouldn't fall for it.
I think what it comes down to is that you have a severe aversion to commitment or longer term relationships, which colours your view & therefore you proclaim that no marriage is successful, and there can be no successful long term relationship. That's fine for you, but it doesn't mean it holds true for everyone else, as you are claiming.
