Posted on 07/21/2005 6:12:35 PM PDT by sassbox
Priest: Do you, Ming the Merciless, ruler of the universe, take this earthling, Dale Arden, to be your empress of the hour?
Ming: Of the hour? Yes.
Priest: Do you promise to use her as you will?
Ming: Certainly!
Priest: Not to blast her into space? ... Until such time as you grow weary of her?
Ming: I do.
Dale: I do not!
Ah, love!
You're a product of the publik skools, aren't you?
I cannot see how couples united in marriages that are performed in Churches and before God can get away with this. I vowed before the Lord to love my husband in good times and in bad. I *vowed*!
This is really sad how little we as a people respect our promises, our word, and our Lord and Creator.
If it's any consolidation to you, the kids are watching...
beh. I always preferred "I take you according to the Law of Moses and Israel." Much more fitting.
Well, most of the married folks I know remain married. I always suspected the 50% figure myself.
Will be three years in Nov and before I got married I made it very clear to hubby that I simply don't stand for divorce. Pine box here also.
Same as if the no good husband takes up with a bimbo. Both are equally responsible. Thanks to good old 'no fault' divorce, marriage only means something to those with morals and values and religious beliefs. The state institution of marriage is meaningless.
"You're a product of the publik skools, aren't you?"
"I always suspected the 50% figure myself."
See, SOMEONE'S on my side. Nyahh.
You too, have made me smile. I married Mr. S_S29 only 6 weeks after we met. And it was some only years after being married that I realized how much I genuinely love him.
Congratulations!
How would you like to earn a million dollars, and then be ordered by the courts to give it to some girl who (after 18 years) stole your kids, your house, and your future?
Life is tough.
Did you get a good lawyer?
you mean your ex wife?
they are, and they are old enough to make their living preferences known, the a judge in the state of AZ, apparently is more powerful than God, and knows my children better than I do, and what's more, he's been abusive and the state custody evaluator doesn't care, nor the judge, even though the children have told about seeing their Dad hit me. Apparently it's better for an abusive Dad, any kind of Dad to have half time with the kids, unless of course he happens to be in jail. This way, the Dad's plead that they only have to pay half their child support, hence the kids have a hard time financially at one house and not at another. Such a pity. Because of this "parent at any cost" several children have been killed by "their loving parent".
You're still young, kid. Don't get married. Or at least don't have kids. You may actually get to keep your house and 60% of your gross pay.
My suspicion of the 50% figure is based on my sense that while maybe 50% of all marriages fail, not 50% of all married people end up divorcing. If I'm not mistaken, second marriages have a much higher failure rate. You see people with two or three divorces, and others with one marriage. I think perhaps the confusion is in number of divorces vs. number of people who have been divorced. For every 42 year marriage, you have someone thinking "fourth time's the charm!"
Not exactly the info in my case, he filed, and ran out after we have supporting his illness, trying counseling, and fixing the family. Evidently repairing the family wasn't one of his priorities and the children weren't either until he filed.
Nah, I don't think so. Marriage is for life. I view this much the same as pre-nuptual agreements. "I promise to love you forever, but just in case sign this contract saying that you won't take any of my stuff..." That's like admitting that your possessions are worth more than your love and your word. A definite recipe for divorce.
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