Do you believe in Marriage?

[The Grand Nudger]

I've heard that youth is impressionable, and also that they pick up new tricks much faster than their elders. See, me...I could never get the pressure right. It's either hands off or full on strangle till dead.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

Losty, he's young and fresh and in love(and barely legal)......what more could you ask for?  Should I send flowers?

But does he know how to properly wrap his hand around my throat when he's shoving his....yea yea I'll go back to a69 now  

I can go as long as 8 rounds at a time

[The Grand Nudger]

You have to apply the conversion formula.  8 rounds for her is, maybe, 1 for you.

[Losty]

I've heard that youth is impressionable, and also that they pick up new tricks much faster than their elders.  See, me...I could never get the pressure right.  It's either hands off or full on strangle till dead.

O_o how many times did you practice before you worked that out?

[drfuzzy]

When I was younger, I thought marriage was a beautiful thing.

Now, I'm not so sure.  I see gay couples that were happily together for years, who FINALLY were able to get married and enjoy the financial benefits marriage would bring . . . (yay?) . . . but now are having difficulties and have to get a DIVORCE.   I have a straight friend whose husband recently died.  He had somehow managed to hide the fact that he was a gambler - - with sizable debts - - from her.  Now, who has to pay the debts that she didn't approve or even know existed?  -- She does.   I have a cousin who got married to his long-time girlfriend - - they had been together for 20 years before marriage.  He got a good job.  She's now addicted to prescription pills, and spends most of her life in bed.  He's angry and feels STUCK with her.

Church people say it's a beautiful thing, given to us by god.  I say that it's a binding contract to try to prevent cheating (unsuccessful), to legitimize which kids are yours (partially successful), and to be able to feed those kids (partially successful).  

I'm not sure marriage will last in its current form -

[The Grand Nudger]

Marriage is as mixed a bag as the people who get married.  My first marriage was essentially a procedural in how to incite someone to homocide.  My current marriage is, more than anything, the best friendship I've ever had.  If it went south, the only thing that would change is a box on our tax forms.

That's marriage, in it's current form from both extremes of the spectrum, so....It can last at least as long as she and I last, and as long as marriages like ours exist, or even marriages somewhere between homocide and devotion on that spectrum. I think the institution is pretty safe, on the whole.

[Rhondazvous]

If I'm ever cray enough to get married again, I hope my spouse will call me a fucking cunt every once in a while.

So you think he will stop calling you that once you get married? Remedy: Just don't stop fucking.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

What if you could cheat on your partner and get away with it? Would anyone take it? (And it's a superhot person)

[Mermaid]

What if you could cheat on your partner and get away with it? Would you take it?

I wouldn't have gotten married if I wanted to see other people. So no. No desire.

[Losty]

What if you could cheat on your partner and get away with it? Would you take it?

If by cheat on your partner and get away with it, you mean having casual sex with trusted friends with the express permission of my spouse, absolutely, but then that wouldn't be cheating at all would it?

Cheating is wrong in the sense that being dishonest with someone you love is wrong. Open communication is a good thing and if you don't want to be monogamous you should just be with someone who's okay with that.