those crazy european secularist cosmopolitans- apparently, they have decided that marriage is optional. guess the pentecostals' knickers will be in a knot over that one. maybe the europeans are just copying what the americans have done all along since the heathenistic 1960's- livin' in free love.
i am a defender of marriage myself. i have been happily married for almost 10 years and i lived with my husband for a year before we got married and had dated him for about 3 years before that. there is something about the legality of marriage that is sobering and meaningful. definitely, not for everyone though.
i think that it is ok to live together without being married but don't expect your relationship to be like you were married- because it isn't. you either are or aren't married. you can pretend all you want but it isn't the same. i don't particularly think that you should bring a child into the world without a bigger committmet than sharing rent either- but the whole having babies thing is an entirely separate post. i think that may be why the gay folks' panties are in a bunch about wanting to get married. they want the marriage thing for a variety of reasons but the biggest one is probably showing the world that they are a united, until death do us part, couple.
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I was married for 20 years, living in the wonderful institution we call marriage. However, I have been uninstitutionalized now for about 8 years, and, I have to say, I like it better. Of course, having a good husband would probably make it all worth while. By good, I mean he can read, does read, and actually talks on occasion.
i really love my husband- but if for some reason we were not married- i would remain single. it's a lot of work.
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