On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Karla Robinson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> And I’m sorry I “missed” (har har) your thread on this subject, Melissa. >> Can’t believe this isn’t getting wider play. > > To me, it isn't a testament to Letterman not being popular, I see it > more as a testament to how little the institution of marriage is > regarded. He's been with the woman for years, and they already had a > kid. So last Thursday he said a few words and probably slipped a ring > on her finger. Many don't see marriage as more than that. They don't > recognize the significance of a formal union, and so they don't see > the story as having much significance, either.
I don't know that it is fair to say the Letterman marriage isn't getting wider play. There are 509 articles linked to it on google news. Melissa told us it was covered by Brian Williams last night on the NBC News. I saw it on CNN and MSNBC. And there are a few other stories to cover these days. The percentage of Americans getting married is declining, but most Americans still do get married - 85% of American women will marry at some time in their lives, compared to 95% in the 1950s (and many of them get married more than once). Probably the biggest reason for that is that Americans are waiting longer to get married - which Letterman and Lasko take to something of an extreme. The good news is that the divorce rate is much lower for people who marry after age 25 than for those who marry before 25. If I knew Dave, and if one of his reasons for not get married was his concern over how he screwed up his first marriage, I would have told him that young marriages often end in a mess, and it said less about him as a potential husband and more about age and maturity. He could have gotten married 15 years ago with little change in the likelihood of a successful marriage from what he has now. Dave must think marriage is pretty important or he would not have avoided it all these years with Lasko. I had made a prediction to my friends some years ago that Dave would get married when he thought his mother was getting ill and near the end of her life, to make her feel better. I hope I was wrong about that (for some reason I am really dreading the death of Dave's mother) and I guess I was since it sounds like she was not even there (I had thought he would do it at her house in Indiana). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
