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This law is a total load. For one thing, with the possibility of a multi-million dollar payout, the trial lawyers will make sure this never goes away. Flipping through the Raleigh phonebook, I see several lawyers say they pursue alienation of affection. Therefore it is profitable for them for the law to stay. They are going to do everthing they can to make sure all lines to the bread and butter are going to remain open. Second of all, who ever promised you, me or anyone else a damn thing in this life, much less promise that anyone would be happy. Why should there be legal recourse for affairs of the heart. What if the unhappy spouse tried everything they could but to no avail couldn't find happiness with the person they married. People change, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. I have talked to several people who said that their spouse chnaged the day they got married. So should there be legislation for marital fraud? Third, I guess some people are able to put a pricetag on feelings and emotions. Fortunately, I am not one of them.

Why should there be legal recourse for affairs of the heart.

Ah, but there's the rub. It is a legally binding covenant not only in the eyes of the state, but more importantly in the eyes of God Almighty. Last time I read the Bible(of which most marriages are done either in a synagogue or church, so therefore the people getting married are accepting their vows as binding in the eyes of both) it doesn't say "Well when you've grown apart and aren't happy, that's okay!!"

Why should there be legal recourse for affairs of the heart.

Since the ease of divorce and lack of reprecussions for marital misconduct has become the norm in this country:
1. The divorce rate has sky-rocketed,
2. The number of one-parent families has sky-rocketed,
3. The amount of public aid to children has sky-rocketed,
4. The State and Federal programs to assist these families have sky-rocketed,
5. The number of family counselors anf therapists have sky-rocketed,
6. The number of lawyers and judges required to sort the mess out have sky-rocketed,
7. The crime rate among young people has sky-rocketed.

Not bad for a simple little affair of the heaart. I wonder what happened to personal responsibility and commitment. I thought those were supposed to be conservative values.