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For some people, taking a lover may seem a solution to the dullness of marriage, but this can prove rather a problematic solution for many emotional and moral reasons. Some people suggest that one way of dealing with these difficulties is to take an old lover. The view, presented here by two people, runs contrary to the popular belief that a young lover is better. Read More
You know, as a young single
You know, as a young single guy reading this, it comes as a surprise how common and accepted this appears to make infidelity seem. Why even bother getting married? I suppose the novelty of it, the wedding, a big deal, a fun, exciting excursion...but then to realize that your baser instincts for rampant, uncontrolled passions rears and you end up with cheating and sneaking around and dishonesty and heartache and all that, just because you didn't realize from the onset that marriage is a ludicrous concept and not at all what you wanted, it was a whim, a passing fad. Marriage is to an adult what wanting a pony is to a 5 year old girl, it sounds good in theory, but in practice it ends up being costly, burdensome and messy, and eventually you have to send it off to the glue factory. Why do we have a tendency to lie to ourselves, to delude ourselves into a belief that we want monogamy, why can we not just own up to reality and accept that marriage is illogical and hypocritical and insulting to the freedom of both parties? Land of the free, yet go ahead and "tie the knot," place the shackles, I mean rings, on your fingers, you are bound, you are united (there is no escape). The wedding ring is the receipt, proof of purchase, an honestly disgusting symbol for love, which should be free, airy and limitless. When you try to reign in love, you immediately diminish it, by tying a knot around it, you've broken love's spirit, you've domesticated something that you cherished for the very fact that it was not domesticated, it's wild spirit forever broken.
wow
This is kind of a depressing read. Im surprised it didnt spark more discussion... have we all just given up on trying to remain faithful?
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