[JasonC]

You are making up and projecting nonsense uncharitably. The primary purpose of marriage is children. If it civilizes men - and women - it is because it dedicates both to something more important than themselves. And no, men left alone do not become beasts. Hermit saints are not beasts, monks are not beasts. It is quite completely up to the individual involved. I don't recognize the "we" of your digusting hypothetical. There are people in the modern world, right now, who will do anything and say anything rather than recognize children as the primary purpose of marriage. That's because they hate marriage and are seeking to destroy it. Sliding its normal meaning away from its core to a romantically idealized periphery, is just a preliminary to supplanting that core with a decidedly unromantic and non-ideal periphery. Which is a mere mockery of marriage.

[linda_22003]

You seem to know a great deal about marriage. Have you been married, and how many children have you had? :)

[John O]

You of course have the right to believe whatever you like.

[Melas]

You know as much about marriage as I know about being a life-long bachelor. Absolutely nothing. You are in essence spewing endlessly about something you have absolutely no first hand experience with.

[Alkhin]

Are you Muslim? Because you talk as if you have never lived through the centuries of change that occured in Western civilization, the changes in attitudes towards marriage that occured as more and more people realized that a husband and wife are more than just machines for procreation. You talk as if you have never actually had a relationship beyond what satisfies your sense of security...or lack thereof. This is a pathology that is showing up in Islamic societies everywhere.

Youre hiding from something in yourself. Thats becoming patently clear with each and every post you make. It isnt about the women who don't act the way you want them to. Its about your inability to face your own humanity. You are denying something in yourself that you have apparently spent LOTS of time rationalizing and creating a pseudo-philosophy for. I swear, sometimes the things you post sound like they come straight out of a college textbook.

You need therapy, hun.