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To: Grainne who wrote (98430)	3/18/2005 12:12:59 AM
From: Yogizuna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>>> Twenty-seven years is a long time! Good for them. <<< >>> Strangely, some long-term couples don't want to have any legal bonds between them. The reasons range from fear that marriage would spoil the romance, to fear of commitment, to fear of jinxing what is a good thing, and I'm sure some other fears or beliefs as well. <<< Yes, marriage does negative things to some folks for some reason... They can go steady for years, then they get married and the "wheels" literally "fall off"... A marriage license keeps almost no one together these days when the going gets rough, and I have no regrets about not being "officially" married after 27 years. :) Of course, many deeply religious people are against living together, and society is generally against it for so called "moral reasons", and all the extra income weddings provide for various businesses... After all this time, I can safely say that what keeps long term couples together for many years is friendship first, and everything else, including sex and marriage, a distant second.