[MD] until death do us part

[MarshaV]

Good for you LU, I still haven't mastered perfection.    - m 


On Jun 9, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Louise Pryor wrote:

> My take on this comes from the ones I see really suffering in the whole
> equation - the kids.
> 
> The only people who had no choice in the decision to marry in the first
> place, no choice in being born into the situation, no choice in the hell
> their lives become when the two most important people in their lives decide
> to toss it all away.
> 
> This counts, also, to kids born without the benefit of two committed,
> present parents.
> 
> The confusion, pain and consequences are not mitigated by the increase in
> statistics. Every kid knows someone who's parents are divorced. Every kid
> dreads that it will be theirs next.
> 
> Marriage is for the kids (if there are no kids involved, then seek the
> almighty Romance to your hearts content). Marriage is worth keeping; being
> committed, all the hard work, and time invested in another person is worth
> it. The benefits are immeasurable! My character is more deeply developed by
> learning to deal with this other in my life, by learning to cooperate, to
> communicate, to compromise, to put someone else above myself (this, of
> course, is reciprocal). The kids benefit from seeing these principle put
> into action, seeing conflict resolved, and they go into their own lives
> equipped with better tools for living higher quality lives. Parenting is
> easier to do together, grand-parenting is easier to do together.
> 
> I have been married to John for going on 22 years. He is my first, and only,
> lover. He knows my body - I can't imagine trying to teach someone else. I'm
> a difficult person to please! He knows all the stories, and we can exchange
> a look and just know, because we were both there, because we went through it
> together, because we got through it together.
> 
> Some might consider it boring to already know everything, and want to seek
> the excitement of the new - but with a little imagination that can be done
> right where you are!
> 
> Someone said you only enter a contract with a person you don't trust - and
> that seems sad to me. Do coyotes "enter a contract" when they mate for life?
> My parents mated for life, I knew I would, too. I am monogamous, as is John,
> and perhaps not everyone is, but in my opinion that is more a result of a
> deteriorating (de-volving) society, than anything inborn.
> 
> And it will result in collapse. Kids are hurting themselves - cutters,
> multiple piercing's in sensitive places, sex and drugs at a very early age -
> these are the desperate please of young people who have no trust because the
> two people who should have cared about them, more than they cared about
> themselves, betrayed them.
> 
> Lu
> coming out of hiding for the important issues...
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