Comments on: Grooms for Life

By: Nick Kiddle

Nick Kiddle — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:27:00 +0000

Did my daughter’s bio-dad write this crap? ‘Cos he thought that if I got matched with some random man who lived locally, we could have a happy family without him having to pull his finger out. Never mind that I was so messed up from all the relationship disintegration I’d suffered that I had no chance of a happy family with anyone: man+woman+baby=happy family

By: Kristjan Wager

Kristjan Wager — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:43:24 +0000

DAS, you gotta be kidding – you are making wast sweeping statements based solely on the basis of peoples’ gender. Men and women don’t behave and think differently in regards to sex – individual people behave and think differently.

I really wish people would stop believing that they can tell how people think solely based upon their gender. It’s nonsense.

By: junk science

junk science — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:49:21 +0000

the screaming demonstrators outside abortion clinics would soon be replaced by swains in bow ties, holding rings and serenading the pregnant women.

How is this not a musical yet?

By: Kyra

Kyra — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:29:43 +0000

“People who think a wedding ring means that your income blissfully expands to fit your fertility levels are obviously on crack. Or Jesus, which is worse.”

*laughs hysterically*

Well said.

By: Sophist

Sophist — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:39:17 +0000

Why do I suspect that it may be due to general inavailability of divorce (legally and socially), rather than arranged marriages being more happy?

It also has, I think, to do with the expectations they have going into these unions. It seems to me that people who choose their own spouse for their own reasons probably expect more from the relationship than people who are entering into what is essentially a contractual partnership that has all the passion of a 30 year mortgage.

You can’t be dissapointed if you didn’t expect much in the first place.

There is a class of romance novels–the romance version of cozies–in which the dashing stranger eventually falls in love with the single mom. But…romance novels always end in happy marriages.

That’s because they don’t have to figure out what to do next season.

By: Alexandra Lynch

Alexandra Lynch — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:11:53 +0000

This is wrong on so many levels.

First, marriage makes it all all right. As I said repeatedly during the time of SuperFertility, which ended when I got my tubes tied, “People who think a wedding ring means that your income blissfully expands to fit your fertility levels are obviously on crack. Or Jesus, which is worse.”

Oh, so soap operas reflect what women really want? Okaaaaay… One more way in which I’m out of step with the American Ideal Woman model. I’m not crying any tears over it.

By: R

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:00:07 +0000

Mighty Ponygirl – if it doesn’t work out with your twin’s ex, would you consider marrying me? I think I’m in love (which, actually, probably isn’t necessary!)

By: NBarnes

NBarnes — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:56:48 +0000

And they say it’s us queer folk that are destroying marriage. Riiiiiiiiiight.

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:51:59 +0000

What if a man married a pregnant lesbian to give her baby a dad? Would that be OK or not?

Jen, it would probably be a-ok with them, because presumably the lesbian got knocked up with a turkey baster, not teh sex. Besides, the pro-life-prince-charming might actually set her straight with his amazing super powers!

By: Oh, for the love of God… » Burned-out trash and her bastard offspring

Oh, for the love of God… » Burned-out trash and her bastard offspring — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:49:41 +0000

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