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The purpose of marriage has changed.
Clearly it hasn't.
You didn't answer my question about whether you have parents or grandparents who might remarry. Perhaps some already have. Be sure to condemn their abuse of marriage.
Ahh yes, well you're asking about me specifically so let's be clear up front that I have no empirical data establishing myself or my family as a representative sample of the greater population. You are asking for anecdote, which I'm happy to give, but let's keep in mind that this is just anecdote.
My parents divorced when I was about 7. My father remarried for the expressed purpose of reforming the family (it had the opposite effect, in practice). My mother never re-married because she has always placed her personal freedom above anything which made her feel tied down. The only exception to that was her job, N.U.M.M.I....which thanks to Obama will be closing forever in March (hows that unemployment rate doing?)...hopefully I can convince her to move to SD, but I digress.
Of the grandparent's I'm familiar with: my mother's parents divorced when my mother was a teen. My grandfather had a gambling habit which my grandmother finally couldn't live with any longer. Their divorce was sad but civil. My grandfather remand very much active in the family, tending the family home even though he had moved out with the divorce, being present for family events, and it was easy to see that my grandparents still had affection for each other.
At the moment of his death he was surrounded by his children holding his hand, laying on bed he shared with his wife, in the family home everyone grew up in. I'm sure my grandmother would have been there were it not for very advanced alzheimers...frankly the doctors don't know how she's still alive.
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