And the point of the thread was about cohabitation, and the wisdom - or lack thereof - before marriage. But you can never let go of an opportunity to subvert a thread to express your own bitterness.
Humans have biological needs, and millennia of very wise people have approved the institution of marriage to constrain and constructively direct those needs.
The fact that you are bitter about how divorce is often litigated in this country doesn’t give you the authority to condemn a time-honored institution - and your expression offends the many people here who believe in marriage, and have had good, lifelong marriages to prove it.
Poor you.
I’d have more respect for you if you would get out of your armchair, and spend some of your vitriolic energy on actually working to CHANGE the things that you see wrong.
But I guess whinging and posting on the internet are easier.
Thanks for the laugh. See ya.
“ and your expression offends the many people here who believe in marriage, and have had good, lifelong marriages to prove it.”
Hold on Francis. You are using the same low information emotive reactive tactics that the left uses.
I pointed out the correct factual information that I have observed in 20 years of my career and what I have seen.
But you don’t care about that.
One can simultaneously hold two separate ideas, remember those days?
It used to be called discussion .
Yes marriage is an awesome thing.
But yes as well that many men are treated horribly in divorce.
Maybe you need to have some compassion on the great guys who were taken to the cleaner by a spouse who wasn’t a nice person .
Get out of your narrow circle and show compassion to people who have suffered terrible hurt.
Yes it does happen .
But as I mentioned above, that doesn’t take away from the fact that marriage is the preferred option .
Marriage is God ordained and the only institution for the legitimate expression of sex. He condemns sex outside marriage.
God is the one who said that it is not good for man to be alone and instituted marriage and how it is to operate. Anyone who advocates against marriage goes against God’s design for humanity and family.
It’s the mechanism by which children are to be brought into the world and raised. (Malachi 2:13-16 And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God[g] seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Men are to love their wives as Christ loves the church and gave Himself for it, and women are to respect their husbands and obey them as Christ. Men are to protect, provide, and lead. Women are to submit and respect. Actually both are to submit to each other and not deny each other sex.
The big problem with marriage these days is that too many people are in it for themselves and their own personal benefit and what they can get out of it. That cannot and will not ever work. It’s selfish lust and not sacrificial love.
There’s plenty of blame to go around in who is at fault for a marriage gone south. It isn’t only women as some here would like us to believe as if men are perfect and can do no wrong.