I have in fact, married three couples. One was doomed from the first by youthful insouciance; a second lasted about 15 years and the third - persists.

As to this thread..
You cannot untangle the pernicious busybodiness of the average Murican Xian --
ill-informed about the contradictions within his so-called gospels,
suffused with the built-in Tribble-like Born-PregnantGuilty AND Sinfilled perpetually..

All wrapped-together within that smug sense of being amidst the Only-True Certainty
[Essential corollary re all others, natch: And You Aren't! ]

No Wonder there's all this dissension about the Holy State of Matrimony, esp. as practised by such hypocrites .. as dare disparage the FULLY-EQUIVALENT..
I Divorce You I Divorce You I Divorce You traditions of the non-Christers they Love-to-Despise. (ie everybody-Not-moi cha cha cha)



Sorry, but, 'rational discussion' of the strange, mean-spirited, Hugely-intolerant superstitions of The Majority -- is itself side-splitting. in a Tom Lehrer sort of way.

I Who Be