Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxn!apple From: apple@ihuxn.UUCP (Randy Applegate) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: In defense of marriage Message-ID: <707@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 19:09:49 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxn.707 Posted: Mon Jun 4 19:09:49 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 04:49:31 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 17 > Traditionally marriages have been arranged, often without the > prospective participants even meeting each other until the ceremony. > Amazingly enough., such marriages actually lasted. Yes, but how many lasted because they were good marriages, and how many merely endured because divorce was simply not an option? The reason to stay married is not simply to avoid a the stigma of divorce, but to actually increase one's happiness. I agree that commitment is important and often neglected, but sticking with a bad marriage (where one spouse simply makes life miserable for the other) just to stay married doesn't sound like the kind of life that could ever be happy. -- Randy Applegate AT&T Bell Laboratories ..ihuxn!apple