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9 months ago ::
Oct 01, 2011 - 5:55PM
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This thread was moved from the Hot Topics Zone
Conservative, Libertarian, Life member of the NRA and VFW
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9 months ago ::
Sep 23, 2011 - 11:04PM
#33
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"Who really cares?" Since that's what this thread is about--anyone who is posing this thread. No one is forcing anyone to read or post here.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 23, 2011 - 10:34PM
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Who really cares? My parents were married by a Roman Catholic priest in a parish house to avoid any cost at the end of the depression. I was born a year and a half later. They "eloped" at home. Many years later my sisters and I were all married with Nuptial masses and receptions.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 23, 2011 - 9:50PM
#31
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Weddings can be expensive.
This is not about weddings but about commitment ceremonies.
What's the difference?
Have you read my posts on this thread?
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9 months ago ::
Sep 23, 2011 - 9:47PM
#30
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Weddings can be expensive.
This is not about weddings but about commitment ceremonies.
What's the difference?
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9 months ago ::
Sep 23, 2011 - 9:46PM
#29
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Weddings can be expensive.
Elope, dammit, ELOPE!!!!!
Too late. Already married. And we got the wedding paid off anyway.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 23, 2011 - 8:31PM
#28
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Weddings can be expensive.
This is not about weddings but about commitment ceremonies.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 23, 2011 - 8:02PM
#27
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Weddings can be expensive.
Elope, dammit, ELOPE!!!!!
For those who have faith, no explanation is neccessary.
For those who have no faith, no explanation is possible.
St. Thomas Aquinas
If one turns his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9
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9 months ago ::
Sep 23, 2011 - 8:00PM
#26
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Weddings can be expensive.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 23, 2011 - 11:20AM
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I guess I just don't see the point of a "commitment ceremony." Seems to me it'd be sufficient to behave as a couple around family and friends. Why would you care about "making public" your relationship to anyone else?
I suppose feeling a need to do something like this reflects society's overweening concern for categorizing people.
People enjoy being categorized if it is pleasant. People often find being part of a couple pleasant or being parent or a grandparent, that is a big public categorization. My friends without children are very big on their dogs and enjoy that categorization. I have a small group of friends that enjoy presenting themselves as practisers of yoga. People like that, they find it affirming. They bring up yoga early in the introductory conversation, they put stickers on vehicles and laud the benefits of yoga often on facebook. The parent of a ball palyer or the parent of a musician that gets bandied about alot too. If anything happenened to my husband I don't think I would want to get married again. I personally don't see the point in that kind of commitment without raising children. That is just me at this point in my life and how I see it. I know many people see it differently. I mentioned several posts ago about my grandfather who was devoted to a woman for many years but was never thinking of marriage - what was the point for them? Alternately, I also had a grandmother on the other side of my family who got married for the second time at the age of 78, she had been widowed for over 30 years. She married a man in his early 80's. I think for them it was all about propriety, because she wanted to take care of him and that involved living with him which in her mind would not be proper without marriage.
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