This is the most compelling reason for domestic partnership I have ever encountered. I’m the critter captain regardless of leg number.
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IDK, smacks isn’t american so there’s no point really. It actually costs me money every year to be married.
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But at what cost?
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Only your life.
Marriage is wonderful provided you married the right person. I will admit that it can be pure hell if you marry the wrong person.
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Wait… am I the murderer or murderess in my marriage?
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Which would you prefer?
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I was analyzing the evidence against my knowledge of killers (learned entirely through mass media). And it was inconclusive.
G is better insured. So from a practical viewpoint and for the good of my children, I should do a sneaky murder.
From a romantic note we can wait till I’m on my deathbed and do a little poison switcheroo to prove that yes, I will live longer. Or vice versa. Best to go out behaving how we want to in perpetuity.
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Ok but I would have a man in my house. And he wouldn’t leave. What if he had opinions about food or decor or activities or money? That sounds unpleasant. Hard pass on letting some man have the right to thoughts and opinions in my wonderful home.
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Yep that would be terrible.
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I didn’t realize that men were inherently bad.
Men are fine. I like many of them. I’m just not interested in having one in my house as a fixture. The best thing about my life is that I get to be totally indifferent to the opinions of men.
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Men who think that not wanting one in their lives = disliking all men is a sentence I can’t finish.
I have lived alone.
Married a woman
Lived alone
Married a man.
I assure you that love and respect are what make marriage tenable, not financial gains or practical help.
ETA the cohabitation and second marriage go against my brain.
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I too have been divorced. I understand the difference between a good and bad marriage.
And it’s not a matter of thinking that not wanting a man in one’s life equals disliking all men. It’s a matter of the original statement. “Hard pass on letting some man have the right to thoughts and opinions in my wonderful home” comes across as pretty anti-male. Imagine if I said that about women.
Not everyone needs to get married, and not every woman needs a man. Of course. But that’s not to say that marriage can’t have certain advantages.
Like having someone to kill the bugs for me. I fucking hate spiders.
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When I was married he made really good pancakes and coffee.
Now I make better coffee than he ever did, but his pancakes are still superior. I miss them.
I don’t miss him.
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Good pancake chefs are hard to find.
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If you said it was a hard pass on you letting some woman come into your home and redecorate and shit it would not offend me or all women in general.
Could offend a specific woman, but why on earth would it be offensive for anyone not to want their life fucked with?
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I have the number for one if you want. He’s a whole person and not a countertop appliance so there is bad with the good and you have to want all of it.
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