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Few people have a connection that withstand the winds of time. Time can wear down even the strongest of relationships. The weakest ones just snap and dissolve the fastest. There's no way to predict which marriages will last. If there was such a test, lawyers and psychologists would all be looking for another line of work.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

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“There’s no way to predict which marriages will last.”

That’s why it’s better to ensure that they all last by disallowing divorce except under the most extraordinary circumstances.

People talking about “love” here seem to be referring to the sort of attraction that is three-quarters lust, which flickers and goes out in six months or a year.

There’s a better kind, but you have to stay married for ten or twenty years to get there.

And no, shacking up won’t get it.