Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Essence Of Non-Marital Cohabitation

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8 comments:

Ori Pomerantz said...

Do you see any difference between cohabitation and marriage as practiced by non-Catholics, marriage with the option of no-fault divorce?

4/23/2011 9:06 PM
Paul, just this guy, you know? said...

Most people who enter into marriage in the U.S. today do so with the option of no-fault divorce, willy nilly.

Most of these people don't intend to ever make use of it, so yes, I do see a real difference.

Just co-habitating is in order to explicitly keep one's options open.

4/24/2011 12:13 PM
Oliver said...

I think this a good example of how you see long-term couples who aren't married.

4/24/2011 2:59 PM
Paul, just this guy, you know? said...

How long is "long-term" Oliver?

You're married, aren't you? How long do you plan to remain married to your wife?

4/24/2011 3:07 PM
Oliver said...

I get the impression that you want to tell me and others like me (liberals, pro-aborts, moral relativists - whichever label you prefer) that our marriages or our long-term relationships (should we choose not to get married) are selfish and immoral. Something like that anyway.

4/24/2011 3:50 PM
Paul, just this guy, you know? said...

Oliver, I keep answering your points and you keep ducking my questions.

My point is simply this: a so-called "long-term" relationship that isn't marriage is essentially different from marriage. It is often an explicit rejection of marriage.

But you will continue to pretend that two different things are the same thing. It don't make it so.

4/24/2011 3:52 PM
Ori Pomerantz said...

Paul: Just co-habitating is in order to explicitly keep one's options open.

Ori: I see. In Israel, co-habitating is the "due diligence" stage before marriage. Unless something goes seriously wrong, that's where it usually leads.

4/25/2011 8:19 AM
Colleen said...

That's a funny clip.

Last summer, there was a car in the neighborhood on which someone's boyfriend had written on the windows, "Susie, will you move in with me???"

Gosh, darn, how romantic. You would think that, even if one is not embarrassed about co-habitating (now that it's the 21st century, right?), one would be ashamed at such a public display of quasi-commitment -- such overt celebration of mediocrity. "Rejoice with us, world -- we're SIGNING A LEASE together!!!"

4/25/2011 11:57 AM

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