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[vicarz]

Posty McPost: Marriage notes.
Friend/acquaintance just got married, saw the pics and she's hot (he's ok, very socially awkward). Revealed last night his new wife is pregnant - I am sure of the order of events in the reverse in which I learned of them. They don't speak the same language - she's eastern block. Good luck with that.

My Minneapolis trip in which the Jehovah witness was a great dancer, partied all night, and left the hotel at 2am to go catch that hottie he was dancing with in the club? Married (somehow he never mentions her).

Mawiage...

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It's an institution!

[feistydiva.livejournal.com]

Marriage is really just a legal commitment. To some people it's a validation of their love for someone, for others it's an official acquisition of another piece of property. It's all what you make of it, and your personal mileage may vary.

It also gives your partner/property/plaything some legal rights, if you want them to have those sorts of things.

(Whatever the case, the Commonwealth of Virginia sure makes it tough as Hell to get un-married!)

Re: It's an institution!

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Of course divorce is hard - we want to protect those married pregnant 14 year olds!

Edited post to note the mail-order bride-ness of the new marriage.

Re: It's an institution!

[greatevil.livejournal.com]

(Whatever the case, the Commonwealth of Virginia sure makes it tough as Hell to get un-married!)

oh hell ya. took longer to get divorced then I was married.

sigh

Re: It's an institution!

[chelonologist.livejournal.com]

My sister had to go to court three times to swear her divorce because they lost the paperwork twice.

My divorce has been dragging on for months now, and my lawyer reckons six months more. Apparently I have to provide her with a photo of my ex so they can wait outside his house and stuff the paperwork into his hands like on TV.

My marriage: five years. My ex's previous marriage: five years (tried to run his wife through with a bayonet). Sister's marriage: four years (he was a drunk). Other sister's marriage: also four years (tried to run her through with a pair of scissors and burnt the house down whilst she was in it). Best friend's marriage: two years. Another friend's marriage: one year (also a drunk). Another friend's marriage: two months (as soon as they were married he started beating her).

Call me a cynic, but it just doesn't seem to work out.

Re: It's an institution!

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I was going to skip it, but I thought about that myself - along with the idea that marriage as an institution is hard to judge from some isolated anecdotes.

Re: It's an institution!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_blackjack_/]

Yes, well, she needed me to recalibrate her instruments is all...

[end-fate.livejournal.com]

Staying together for the kids? Not for me. Gross. :(

Re: It's an institution!

[chelonologist.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I didn't find out about the bayonet incident until after we were married.
But, yeah, I was a moron to marry him.
Win some, lose some.
I only know one happily married couple; they are Christians and were virgins when they got married.

[topaz720.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah, I could go off on this one for a long time. :(

Re: It's an institution!

[chelonologist.livejournal.com]

There is no plural of data.
Data is the plural of datum.

Re: It's an institution!

[chelonologist.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get it, you were trying to say 'the plural of anecdote is not data', but it was a little bit too complicated for you to remember...