Resolved Question: Why do people want to believe marriage is a successfu institution when facts show it is failing/has already __?

3 February 2012, 9:48 am

_ failed? It is truly bizarre that when I provide statistics that are published in national and international broadsheet newspapers such as The Washington Post, NYT, London Times etc that people become hostile and start hurling abuse because they want to believe a lie, frankly. More people have been burnt to death in history for this very reason - the incredibly bewildering tendency to hate others who present them with irrefutable truth that should be empowering. The truth should set you free. But no. People would rather belabor a delusion and be unhappy. Beggars belief. The statistical evidence, the plotted graphs - the mathematical predictions - the recent study of TEN THOUSAND *in love* couples - all demonstrate that marriage is over. What is this odd human tendency to become hostile when pressented with irrefutable facts? Is it the Princess Mentality rearing its ugly head again? Why are the parents of today leading their little lambs to the slaughter with the *Princess for a Day* idiocy with white gowns and tiaras and the temporary handsome prince? And when respondents say "I have been married ten years so you are wrong!" - it is stupid to cite a single example of a couple who has stayed together for (even) fifty years because they came from a time when it was unacceptable to divorce and many stay together because they simply tolerate each other. The tiniest minority may even love each other til death. Most, however, do not. If you have/plan to have children - would you encourage them to grow up as independent and happy as a single people or will you brainwash your children into getting married because "getting married and having children is what everybody does"? THE FACTS: human beings do not meet their spouse-for-life at a very young age and stay with them til death Humans have a series of long, short and medium term relationships interspersed with periods of casual sex and celibacy and living solo. This is what happens Period. @ BECCA you said: "Casual sex and failed marriages are probably all you've ever known so that's all you'll ever want to believe" Ad hominem and illogical insults and attacks do not a coherent argument make, sweetheart. I am not discussing my own life - I am gay. I am discussing HETEROSEXUAL marriage which has been proven to be on the way out. The adult heterosexual life consists of a series - get it? - a series of flings, short/medium and longer term (maybe) relationships with or without kids and periods of celibacy and 'singledom'... Read More »

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