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- Subject: Re: Getting Married: Grounds for Insanity Plea?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.105402.1@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au>
- From: s341031@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au (Kerryn Pridgeon, Melbourne Uni, Australia)
- Date: 24 Nov 92 10:54:02 GMT
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- >In article <198@cnmhnet.UUCP>, keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard) writes:
- >> In article <stone.721680394@cwis> stone@cwis.unomaha.edu (Travis Stone) writes:
- >>>Can anyone give me (a minimum) of three good, logical reasons
- >>>why people should marry? It strikes me as a silly and unnecessary
- >> I couldn't agree more, Travis. I could never figure out
- >> why people marry either, for the same reasons you described.
-
- While there maybe plenty of reasons why people *don't* marry, there are even
- more reason why they *DO* !!!
- (And I am sure that they have already been discussed at great length on this
- board before)
-
- >> I looked at it like this; I figured that marriage was for life,
- >> and I notice that the average life expectancy is 75 years old.
- >> That would mean that if one gets married at age 20, then they
- >> would be stuck with one person for 55 years! I just know
- >> that they would have to get bored with each other. That is
-
- Well, there is a simple solution to that little problem then isn't there ?
- Don't get married at 20 ! Besides, if you love someone enough, then the
- prospect of spending 55 or more with them is a very rewarding one !!!!
-
- >> why I really didn't worry about marriage. I liked getting
- >> different women, and if one doesn't work out, I just move
- >> on. Things are so much simpler that way. However, if you
-
- Well, I just hope that, in your wanderings, you don't pick someone who wants
- long-term committments, or someone who thinks that you are "it", b/c with
- that attitude, you can only end up hurting a lot of people !
-
- >> do meet someone who you want to have some type of long-term
- >> relationship with, the living-together syndrome is a viable
- >> alternative, but it has it's drawbacks. Example, in some
- >> states, even though the two people are living together without
- >> the benefit of marriage, if the relationship fails, then it
- >> is possible for one partner to sue the other under the
- >> infamous "palimony" statutes.
-
- That is a pretty pessimistic view to take !!!!!!
- You seem to be under the impression that the relationship *will* break up no
- matter what happens.
-
- >> --Keith
-
- Kerryn.
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