[Buckeye McFrog]

There seems to be something going on with marriage that’s the bigger social issue. Before, people would just get a divorce. For some reason, people are staying and cheating instead.”

The "Open Marriage" concept of the 1960's coming home to roost. That and the fact that Government is now telling us we are free to re-define Marriage any way we want to.

[thackney]

Government is now telling us we are free to re-define Marriage any way we want to

Those that needed or wanted the government to define marriage for them didn't understand marriage in the first place.

[dayglored]

> The "Open Marriage" concept of the 1960's coming home to roost. That and the fact that Government is now telling us we are free to re-define Marriage any way we want to.

Those trends are VERY worrisome. They cut away at the traditional family structure which has been critical to human beings advancing as a species. I hope that these are merely fads of a few decades' duration, not fundamental changes to how we as civilized people run our society. Otherwise we are doomed to revert to a lower level we haven't seen in thousands of years.

[discostu]

Open marriages aren’t people cheating, cheating is done without permission of the other spouse. Which as a concept has been going on a long time, it didn’t used to be that being caught cheating was the end of the marriage, that’s a fairly recent development.