Fewer Sex Partners Means a Happier Marriage

The Atlantic ^ | 10-22-18 | OLGA KHAZAN

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Or, better yet, this quote from Khan:

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

~ Genghis Khan

[Deaf Smith]

My last ex:

When she said she liked Pickups, I thought she meant trucks.

[Blue Jays]

"...love and marriage..."

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Dating someone and being together without a marriage certificate is very probably the purest form of love. When either member can exit whenever they wish...yet they choose to happily remain together...that is a rather powerful statement of sincere dedication.

[Biggirl]

Yet for some reason Mathew 1:1-17 and in the third chapter of Luke showed a very interesting set of family histories in regards to the Savior.

[MrEdd]

The name for men who have done so is exacly the same, and there is no difference between the two.

[BobL]

“Only way for guys to avoid world of hurt is to not get married. Take Paul’s advice and stay awsy from women.”

I don’t think it’s quite that bad. The key is finding a woman from a family that still values marriage. Typically that means having to go overseas for a wife.

[MortMan]

Actually, I found it to be a clever commentary on the secularist’s view of traditional christian marriage. Whether 2banana meant it that way or not notwithstanding.

[GOPsterinMA]

No s*it, right?

“Don’t marry the town public toilet.” Like this needs to be studied.

[refermech]

Hillarious! And so true!

[chesley]

You seem to be reading a different Bible than I do. Try the New Testament

[Buckeye McFrog]

Fewer Sex Partners Means a Happier Marriage

Yeah, wives hate it when the bed gets that crowded.
{cymbal crash}

[SteveH]

bs.

cite your specific differences from mine— or concede you are making a specious point.

[SteveH]

Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them.

Matthew 5:17

https://www.catholic.org/bible/book.php?id=47&bible_chapter=5

[Mrs. Don-o]

A lot of that bidniz about multiple wives in the OT may very well be meant in a cautionary way. A lot of fraught relationships, fighting, and rivalry in those polygamous set-ups, both with Wife#1 vs Wife#2 stress, and Sons-of-wife#1 vs Sons-of-wife#3 and #4.

And check out the homicide rate.

As I think Gilda Radner once observed: "If you can't be a Good Example, you'll just have to serve as a Horrible Warning."

[Mrs. Don-o]

But as Paul pointed out, Jesus was descended from Sarah (Wife #1, the “free woman”), not Hagar “the slave.”

[fwdude]

God, through the Apostle Paul, was exactly correct. When we join sexually to a person there is a union. When that union is casual and then discarded, you’re essentially discarding a part of yourself, like cutting off an arm.

[fwdude]

I think the definition of “happiness” needs be be reiterated and reaffirmed here.

It is NOT feelings of good times. I know a lot of partiers, and their facebook accounts are full of photos of them at the bars, smiling with their bazillion “friends.” Most of these people are decidedly not happy.

[SteveH]

bathsheba, 7th wife of david.

[SteveH]

speculative. calls for interpretation.

[Olog-hai]

The Hebrew word in Deuteronomy 17:17 translated “multiply” in the KJV is “rabah”, which does mean to increase or multiply. Originally, God made just one wife for Adam, not several wives; this is what Jesus was referring to “from the beginning” (Matthew 19:4, Mark 10:6).