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Ok! Dump her ass!
MC:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 03 Sep 2010, 00:30 ---
My sister-in-law is a divorce lawyer, and she specialises in (and has written a book on) "divorce" of unmarried couples. It's clearly no less traumatic in some cases!
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well here's the thing. Marriage is a lifelong commitment, or so it's intended to be. In other cultures the purpose goes kind of far beyond just "being in love". It's often to provide a solid setting for a family or to provide a means of partnership. Thats why other cultures set up arranged marriages. The whole idea of an arranged marriage assumes that love is not necessarily the goal.
so the point is this. If marriage exists to be a diagnoses for some of the problems caused by, lets say, divorce. Than we kind of need marriage :) besides I don't think a child is damaged any less by an "unmarried" couple who has a father leave, than by a married couple who gets a divorce. At least if you get married you have tried to make a solid foundation in that regard, it may have not worked out the way you hoped, but at least you tried.
Carl-E:
"at least you tried"
That's a pretty big assumption, from what I've seen...
Ocarina654:
--- Quote from: Graphite on 02 Sep 2010, 05:55 --- "... well, God never said you needed to be happy!"
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UGH.
That goes against pretty much my whole religion.
Akima:
--- Quote from: MC on 07 Sep 2010, 08:30 ---In other cultures the purpose goes kind of far beyond just "being in love". It's often to provide a solid setting for a family or to provide a means of partnership. Thats why other cultures set up arranged marriages. The whole idea of an arranged marriage assumes that love is not necessarily the goal.
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I don't know from which perspective you identify "other cultures" (your profile gives no clue), but I think marriage in all cultures goes beyond the romantic relationship between the partners. Even it the most individualistic jurisdictions, the copious body of family law with its attendant procession of disputes over property, alimony, child custody etc. is ample evidence of that. In Australia at least, tax law, superannuation (pension) entitlement, employment law and many other things are heavily influenced by marital status.
akronnick:
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Until about 100 years ago marriage, all marriage, in any culture, was based on the assumption that a woman of any age was incapable of being able to take care of herself or make her own decisions. When she was a child, her father was responsible for her, then her husband, and after he died, her sons (in-law, if she only had daughters)
There was also the assumption that any children were the progeny of the husband, regardless of who actually provided the sperm.
The purpose of traditional marriage was for men to be able to control the uteruses of the world, and wives ranked only slightly above slaves in the social pecking order.
Marriage was never intended to be a partnership of equals until very recently.
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