On May 9, 1:09=A0pm, Dana <dcarp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 9, 2:44 am, Curse Of Millhaven <millha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Seems to me marriage went obsolete sometime in the last century.
>
> > Same goes for kids too.
>
> I got married because once I'd been with my now-husband for several
> months I truly couldn't imagine any other way my life could go. =A0I got
> married because the legal contract of marriage allows two people to
> build a life together in a way that not being married -- even if you
> live together for years and years -- does not; it allows far more
> economic flexibility, because each of you knows that you're building
> something for both of you, and if things *do* go wrong you're entitled
> to your share. =A0I got married because I believe that standing up in
> front of one another, one's family, one's friends, one's community,
> and one's God, and making this degree of commitment -- including the
> part about making it legally complicated and economically taxing -- to
> give up, is a magical act, and that there are places one can go
> emotionally as a result that one cannot go any other way.
>
> "Until one is committed
> There is hesitancy, the chance to draw back
> Always ineffectiveness.
> Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation),
> There is one elementary truth,
> The ignorance of which kills countless ideas
> And splendid plans:
> That the moment one definitely commits oneself,
> Then providence moves too.
> All sorts of things occur to help one
> That would never otherwise have occurred.
> A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
> Raising in one's favour all manner
> Of unforeseen incidents and meetings
> And material assistance,
> Which no man could have dreamt
> Would have come his way."
>
> Goethe
>
> I got married because I could not -- and cannot -- imagine any
> greater, deeper joy for this life than to share it with him.
>
> It will be 13 years this Tuesday.
>
> Dana
Happy Anniversary. That was beautiful. You have such a way with words.
It even now makes me doubt that love doesn't really exist even if I
will never feel it for myself.
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