It's one of those primal rites of passage things - possibly the only purely social one left in our society.
Put it another way. If marriage didn't exist, we'd... find more elegant ways of saying "my permanent partner"... find it convenient to have a pre-written legal framework for joint property etc and rights of attorney (who makes medical decisions for you if you're in a coma?)... and celebrate when people signed the same... voila! We'd have just created marriage by another name.
There's also a wider benefit - it provides a decision point. Otherwise, it seems to me, people drift into semi-satisfactory ongoing temporary arrangements.
Myself, I used to be a late-night carouser until very recently (child put the kybosh on that). I still carouse from time to time. I have a reasonable skill with a sword, a sword scar, and rather battered plate armour, all acquired since getting married.
Sooner or later, you have to decide what to do with your life and do it.
(And as for mortgages - that's what's given me a good venue for holding parties over the years, not to mention somewhere were I can put up sword hooks and bookshelves.)
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Marriage isn't boring...
Date: Sat, Oct. 13th, 2007 18:54 (UTC)Put it another way. If marriage didn't exist, we'd... find more elegant ways of saying "my permanent partner"... find it convenient to have a pre-written legal framework for joint property etc and rights of attorney (who makes medical decisions for you if you're in a coma?)... and celebrate when people signed the same... voila! We'd have just created marriage by another name.
There's also a wider benefit - it provides a decision point. Otherwise, it seems to me, people drift into semi-satisfactory ongoing temporary arrangements.
Myself, I used to be a late-night carouser until very recently (child put the kybosh on that). I still carouse from time to time. I have a reasonable skill with a sword, a sword scar, and rather battered plate armour, all acquired since getting married.
Sooner or later, you have to decide what to do with your life and do it.
(And as for mortgages - that's what's given me a good venue for holding parties over the years, not to mention somewhere were I can put up sword hooks and bookshelves.)