"That's fine so long as the roommate agreement stays in effect."
Posted on 05/08/2013 8:27:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
SANTA MONICA (CBSLA.com) — So-called “love contracts” between couples, or written agreements that detail specific promises partners make to each other in a relationship, are growing in popularity, but they may have no legal standing.
Toni Mantus and Gregg Sullivan said they hired an attorney to draft their contract, which breaks down how much time they’ll devote to shared hobbies and how often they will have sex.
“I promise that our date night is gonna be a weekend date and our sex life stays active,” said Toni. “It’s nice to have a contract and say, ‘Look, we did agree to this.’”
Gregg said he even made promises about how much weight he can gain and how many times he’ll visit the gym.
“I do that for myself to be the best man I can be for her,” he said.
Suzanne Pelka, a West Los Angeles sex therapist, said promising sex isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.
“The more they feel like they’re doing this out of obligation, the less likely they’re going to want to have sex with you and the less good the sex is gonna be,” she said. “It’s really this false sense of control that we have because we don’t know what’s gonna happen tomorrow.”
Attorney Brian Kramer said he often gets requests for couple agreements, but told CBS2’s Suzie Suh that a person can’t regulate another person’s conduct under California law.
“You can regulate property, you can regulate support,” he said.
Suh reported that in the end, a person can’t take the “love contracts” to court if one half of a couple falls short of something they said they would do.
Kramer said, “You can’t do that in a prenuptial agreement and if you want a side agreement between the two of you, that’s fine, but you’re potentially jeopardizing the entire agreement.”
Kathie and Paul Atkins, who have been married for 33 years, said they don’t feel comfortable inking their intimacy.
“I personally wouldn’t want to be held to a piece of paper to make him want to be with me,” said Kathie.
Paul said, “I think if you feel the need to draw up a contract it’s because you haven’t taken the time to earn the other person’s trust.”
I agree on the made up vows. LOL
And whenever there is a “royal” wedding from the Windsors the MSM is more concerned if the bride will say the dreaded word OBEY in the vows.
Love Contracts, the new replacement for marriage because it allows them to tax you at a higher rate and destroys the concept of marriage and the sovereignty of God. When you need to know...
If I was al Queda, I’d be laughing too....
"That's fine so long as the roommate agreement stays in effect."
ya think?
:P
They are so taken with their sagacity in looking ahead that they are incapable of realizing that they are as blind as bats and ignorant too.
“A contract”. Golly.
In a more civilized time, before women took over, prostitution was legal. And when women naturally loose interest in sex( a concept hard for me to believe ) at an age around 43 years 3 months and 22 days, men could get serviced in a reasonable manner, buy a jewelry for his wife twice a year and everyone was happy. Now nobody is happy.
When the “pre-nuptial agreement” became a thing of normal everyday society, and not caged within that weird placed called Hollywood, I know we lost it.
Time spent together as a contract item??????
Another sign of American idiocracy, and worthy of that favorite Shakespeare line about ‘whom shall be considered ammunition fodder, first’.
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