She's happily married, dreaming of divorce

CNN ^ | 8/26/2008 | Ellen Tien

[Red in Blue PA]

I contemplate divorce every day. It tugs on my sleeve each morning when my husband, Will, greets me in his chipper, smug morning-person voice, because after 16 years of waking up together, he still hasn't quite pieced out that I'm not viable before 10 a.m.

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Maybe one day, marriage -- like the human appendix, male nipples, or your pinky toes -- will become a vestigial structure that will, in a millennium or two, be obsolete. Our great-great-great-grandchildren's grandchildren will ask each other in passing, "Remember marriage? What was its function again? Was it that maladaptive organ that intermittently produced gastrointestinal antigens and sometimes got so inflamed that it painfully erupted?"

[Brucifer]

“Maybe one day, marriage — like the human appendix, male nipples, or your pinky toes — will become a vestigial structure....”

Excuse me. I like my nipples; I'm keeping them.

[Red in Blue PA]

Those were my thoughts exactly!

[PapaBear3625]

Here's the facts of life

1. For the most part, only a married couple can have multiple children and raise them into productive adults. A single mom may be able to raise one child into a good adult, or be able to spawn a pack of wild animals
2. The only thing that allows a single woman to survive independently is that this is a modern technological society -- whose continued existence as such is dependent upon successfully raising the next generation of productive citizens