On Tue, March 27, 2007 2:29 pm, Christian Seberino wrote: > > On Tue, March 27, 2007 2:17 pm, William Eade wrote: > >> What, then, is the reason for people who CANNOT or DO NOT WANT children >> to >> get married. > > Let me turn it around....if marriage is really just filing a few legal > papers at the courthouse then why is it such a big deal for people to get > married? > > Chris >
Frequently it's not. Civil marriage is often a legality designed to get ownership affairs aligned. My (2nd) marriage was basically a party my wife and I gave for a few friends. We put it on so we could control the menu -- nobody knows how a marriage will work out, but there's no excuse for bad food at the reception. My younger brother got married by a judge on his (my brother's) lunch break. At the time of our marriage, my wife and I had been living together for eight years. She's fun. I like her. I trust her, and I don't mean sexually, which I'm not too concerned about. She also pisses me off royally from time to time. Know why we got married after all those years? We were planning a long trip and triple-A refused to give us two sets of maps unless we were a married couple. That's right, I finally broke down and married her for free maps ... and tows and other stuff, it wasn't totally trivial. I say again, Chris, this marriage thing means different things to different people, and I can't see that there's any absolute correct way to view it. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
