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Why so many marriages fail in the US

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Why so many marriages fail in the US
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 1:07 pm
(January 6, 2024 at 3:55 pm)neil Wrote:
(January 6, 2024 at 3:41 pm)no one Wrote: Who says it is supposed to be for life?

The couples themselves who willingly, voluntarily, get married - it's literally what they say in their own vows.

Not if they don't have that in the vows. You know you can write your own.
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 1:21 pm
Thank you, sayer of nays.

I thought maybe I was speaking in a foreign language.
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 1:24 pm
Religious marriages have a higher divorce rate than those of atheists.

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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 1:41 pm
(January 6, 2024 at 3:55 pm)neil Wrote: The couples themselves who willingly, voluntarily, get married - it's literally what they say in their own vows.

Wasn't in my vows,..................... this time.
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 1:52 pm
I guess that box is lined with kryptonite, and our little Superman, cannot think outside of it.
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 1:58 pm
I didn't exchange vows with my partner. We made a blood pact over a sacrificial goat. *sniff* I get misty thinking about it, such a beautiful ceremony
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 2:03 pm
(January 6, 2024 at 3:55 pm)neil Wrote:
(January 6, 2024 at 3:41 pm)no one Wrote: Who says it is supposed to be for life?

The couples themselves who willingly, voluntarily, get married - it's literally what they say in their own vows.

The traditional marriage vow as an institution is a badly obsolete joke out of touch with progress and reality, and being pushed mainly by religions whose future is dim unless progress is halted and turned back to the level of Iron Age.
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 2:07 pm
(January 7, 2024 at 1:07 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote:
(January 6, 2024 at 3:55 pm)neil Wrote: The couples themselves who willingly, voluntarily, get married - it's literally what they say in their own vows.

Not if they don't have that in the vows. You know you can write your own.

Not to mention - if you treat it as a verbal contract, if one party breaks the vows, why would the other party still be bound? My first spouse was abusive and controlling and uninterested in doing otherwise. I didn't sign up for that shit.
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 2:12 pm
(January 7, 2024 at 1:58 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: I didn't exchange vows with my partner.  We made a blood pact over a sacrificial goat.  *sniff* I get misty thinking about it, such a beautiful ceremony

That was an option? I didn't have to toss both of our firstborn into a volcano? I feel kinda silly now tbh.
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RE: Why so many marriages fail in the US
January 7, 2024 at 2:35 pm
I now pronounce you man and wife.

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