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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (94150)	1/20/2005 3:52:12 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You have to figure that folks who get divorced are more likely to have had fantasies and unrealistic expectations about marriage. It's easy to understand why people who have a fantasy about what marriage is supposed to be, might have a problem with folks intruding on their fantasy and changing the nature of the object they have romanticized. I think everyone I know who has stayed married for a very long time, as I have, knows that marriage is a contract first and foremost. It's a promise to be there, even when you might rather be playing, or doing something just for you. It's a promise to stay connected to the marriage, and to resist those little emotional flameouts that are lust, that some people mistake for "true love". It's a promise to build something solid between two (or more) people, in a world that is not solid. ANYONE can do this. Two women can do it, two men can do it, a whole commune could do it- of course the more people who get involved, the more variables you add, and the less stable it becomes. But fundamentally I think people ought to be encouraged to "marry" and promise to love, and support each other, and the more people who do it, and really mean it, the better- no matter what sex they are.