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Borrowing from prime333's related thread, it appears that marriage isn't for everybody - a position that Statscan tends to support, since the number of people who never marry is increasing, and 40% of Canadians who do marry end up getting divorced.
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Don't know I'm 40 something and still single. But I attribute that to the whole if your not sure don't do it. I think marriage is a great idea if you take your time getting to that point and there are no mysteries or skeletons going into it. You also have to as a couple be strong enough to survive things that would destroy ordinary people. Marriage does work, there are lots of people like my parents who have been together for 50 or 60 years and have the ability to apply a single minded work ethic to solving situations.
However future prime minister Crunch would put in a process where you could get a limited term marriage license of 5 years with a pre-defined separation clause.
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What are the pros and cons? Is it better to stay single forever?
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Obviously on the pro's side of single hood there's a lot more freedom, and the mistakes that you make generally don't have the same splash and collateral damage that they do if your married. There's also the avoidance of staleness in your life because you can simply move on or move out or whatever.
On the con side of single life, eventually everyone hits the point where they're standing over the sink on Thanksgiving eating a cold can of Chef Boy-ardee. Of you start to question your human qualities, and looking with some jealousy on couples. then there's the whole alcoholism thing that follows and then jumping off of a bridge when you realize that nobody will even realize that your gone.
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If you do get married, what are the most important things to make it work?
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Commitment to making it work no matter what the costs, would probably be the answer that my parents who have been together for more then 5 decades together. And brutal honesty without consequences.
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What are the things that are most likely to make it fail? Is it really always women's fault?
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Keeping secrets, or in the terms of Jay Feaster Intellectual Dishonesty.
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Where is the institution of marriage heading and what kind of relationships are going to replace it in the future?
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I think that the institution of marriage will always be there, and people will always have a desire for that serious committed monogamous declared relationship. I could see like I said someone proposing term limits on marriage with a pre-defined dissolution process.
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How about that polygamy thing? Polyandry? Polyamory?
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Usually this seems to be one girl multiple guys, and homey don't play that. And even if it was one Crunch and multiple woman, I think I speak for every guy here when I say that if it happens once, awesome bucket list filled, but a committed relationship built around that, I have enough trouble keeping one woman happy.
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What's the best way to go?
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You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way