Posted on 10/19/2022 8:33:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Then the gays came out and said they were "born that way."
Then the gays demanded the worthless slip of paper as a constitutional right.
Then other people announced they were born the wrong way and the rest of us should pay to have them surgically mutilated.
But it won't be a truly free society until the Furries get recognized!
My wife and I lived together for two years before marriage. Still together after 40 years.
I don’t think the young people consider marriage as their goal. Rather playing house seems to be the idea. Room mates with benifits says it too.
Most young girls are under the false hope the ‘arrangement’ will one day lead to marriage. Even if they don’t think so the day does come where she always starts feeling used as she looks to the future.
I worked with a gal who lived with a man for 5 yrs and she began feeling like nothing more than a kept women. He owned everything and she didn’t have any ‘security’ if something happened to him.
And these days, the man is the only one obligated to perform to the terms of the contact, which provides very profitable rewards to the one one chooses to default on them. Just take a long hard look at any “family” court.
RE: cohabitate is not a word
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it is. See here :
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cohabitate
I agree, but it’s more a function of not wanting to rather than being unable....it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to talk above the shrill tones of female entitlement.
That poor girl. She bought the “you don’t know someone until you live with them, so live with them first.”
Marriage is about two people saying they’re vulnerable enough to risk their entire lives with the other person and withhold nothing…even an escape route of things don’t work out.
Living together is “I only like you this much. I will see if I love you enough to marry you. But for now, let’s have sex, but still withhold major portions of our lives with each other.””
There’s no stability in that and that’s not love.
I agree when the government gets involved the outcome becomes “equitable” which will is wrong, write up a prenuptial just to protect yourself
What they’re actually doing is living togther until someone better comes along.
That milk from the cow will turn to cottage cheese.
Yep. Zero security and zero foundation for future marriage.
I asked a woman who had been married and divorced and who was street wise why this was so, and she said: "The woman who lives with a man befor marriage KNOWS he broke the rules to do so. She doesn't trust him. In her mind, he'll break the rules again and have sex with another woman besides her."
Blam!
The desire to cohabitate before marriage as a “test” shows a complete misunderstanding of the nature of marriage. It reveals that someone is entering into a selfish relations that is only valued if one gets something out of it: what is in it for me? Marriage, on the other hand, is a selfless gift to one another: what can I give to the other? For marriage to succeed one must be “all in” from the beginning.
You didn’t know me, nor anyone in my family.
We’re also seeing people marry but once the kids are raised they think they’ve done their duty so divorce moving on to the next phase of their life.
This is of course more advantageous for a man than a woman.
Do you want to live happily ever after? The best marriage odds are these: there is a 96% chance you will be happily yoked for life if you do the following: forego cohabiting prior to marriage, go to Church on Sundays, and forego artificial contraception.
Anything less cuts down the odds.
Many do not dare to hope that a life long happy marriage is possible. We must try to restore hope and faith in the souls of our young people even when we are not good role models of it ourselves. If we want the best for our children and our country.
For the most part, unmarried couples live together for economic necessity. In my case, both my future wife and I owned homes and one home was not being lived in. We moved in together, and put the empty house up for rent and earned some income. enough income to expand our real estate portfolio.
I remember reading a while ago that the divorce rate was greater for couples living together first. The belief was that when you are living together you are more willing to make compromises. Once, they got married, it was “I’m not putting up with that the rest of my life.”
By the way, God’s view is quite clear.
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