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Marriage and wants  

spudluvr 73M
37 posts
11/5/2014 1:57 pm
Marriage and wants


MnSweet posted a list of her “wants” [post 3517379] and it’s a good list. Things that just about everybody wants from life, though not necessarily what they want from FriendFinder-x.

I certainly want all of those things. And of course I think I would provide all those things to my partner.

I notice that her list does not include marriage. What I want, is a relationship that satisfies all of those wants, but doesn’t include the<b> ties </font></b>of a legal marriage – at least not for an extended period of time. (I think. My thoughts on this seem to change and go back and forth.)

I’m not really against marriage. After all, I’ve enjoyed most of three of them. But in my experience, I have received the things on her list from each of my previous spouses (and long term partners), yet they were not enough to keep the relationships alive. In each of my marriages, especially the last two, issues arose after the marriage that led to failures, in spite of the relationships providing all of those wants.

In my current marriage, we get along fine when it’s just the two of us, but our differences about raising has become a real problem since my moved in with us. I feel like I’m being forced to choose between her and my . If there were signals that this might have been a problem before we married, I certainly missed them.

I’m fairly certain that if we were not married, I would have left her and I believe we could have parted as friends. The hassles and costs of a divorce is one of the primary reasons I stay with her. But I’m pretty sure none of us are really happy, and I fear we are not going to be ending as friends.

sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
11/8/2014 9:04 am

She had an excellent list of wants.. told her go girl go! I agree she was right about not including marriages on her list too.. hugssssssssssssssss V

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spudluvr replies on 11/10/2014 12:34 pm:
aha -- a pattern against marriage among female responders

thanks for reading

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