[Conscience of a Conservative]

If people still want to make *that* social contract and commit to one another once the institution has weight, then great.

That's the problem right there. If the rules you propose were ever instituted, marriage rates would plummet. It wouldn't save marriage, it would be the final nail in marriage's coffin.

[Marie]

That's the problem right there. If the rules you propose were ever instituted, marriage rates would plummet. It wouldn't save marriage, it would be the final nail in marriage's coffin.

These were the 'rules' for over three thousand years and marriage did just fine.