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RosieG

Excluding gold diggers and gigolos to whom love is irrelevant could you ever enter into an arranged marriage to someone you did not love?

In some cultures marriages are arranged by the parents. Where royalty is involved I think alliances are what is important and also DUTY. In the "Student Prince" it is the story line. Loving someone who is not an appropriate match and being duty-bound to marry a princess and leaving behind his true love. I'm sure it happens in real life as well. I think that's sad. What do YOU think? Would you fulfill your obligations to your country or abdicate/run away/marry for love?

Posted - March 18, 2018
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  • 14795
    I wouldn't get married period Rosie......if you want to be with someone ,nothing on earth should stop you....
     No one in my family's ever bothered and that's was mostly on our parents advice and upbringing really..
    It was always viewed as religious or government nonsense....
      March 18, 2018 5:48 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    That's very illuminating sweetie. Are you teasing me or being truthful? In any case a legalized piece of paper does not guarantee happiness or fidelity or an ever after worth a dime. Just as the lack of one does not insure betrayal, duplicity and cruel inhuman behavior. Any relationship is only worth the value/worth of the people in it. No one else is involved. No one else matters. Thank you for your reply D! :)Marriage was a necessity aeons ago when "the little woman" stayed home pregnant and barefoot in the kitche and raised the kids and cooked and kept a good house and kept herself attractice for her man while the man of the house went out to make money to earn a living to support them. Women depended on men to survive. Now many women earn more than many men and some of them are the breadwinners while daddy stays home and takes care of the kids. Nothing wrong with that at all. Some men are much better nurturers than some women. It  makes sense to do what you do best. Anything less than that is silly. Thank you for your reply D. This post was edited by RosieG at March 18, 2018 6:44 AM MDT
      March 18, 2018 6:27 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Not teasing this time Rosie....lol....So many  women are very astute where running business are concerned....they just get things done as they are experts at multi tasking.  lol
    My parents never married and one set of Grand parents never did ever....They are all still together and very very happy..no money wasted on over priced rip of wedding ceremonies either....

    With six kids my dad had to multi task as well......Big as he is ,me mum always put him in his place ......she's quite articulate when then needs arise....She does with words more then he ever could with his fists....lol


      March 18, 2018 6:59 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Not to be nosy my friend but in the states we have what we call 'common law marriage". Not all states. Just some. If you live together long enough then you are in a common law marriage which as I understand it confers all the legal rights and privileges accorded to married people. But in those states that do not recognize it then it could get tricky with regard to things like inheritance or having control  over what happens to your partner. Medical decisions. Things like that. It would be especially tricky if children were involved. I don't know anything about the laws in your country but hopefully they are sensible, reasonable and logical. Thank you for your reply D! :) This post was edited by RosieG at March 18, 2018 8:07 AM MDT
      March 18, 2018 7:23 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    I use to think there was something commonlaw marriages in England Rosie......but it's never ever existed......a women can award parental rights to the father of her child /kids but if she never has then the female can take them away from her partner,emigrate or even give them up for adoption and there is nothing the guy can do about it..

    We all know what's right and wrong Rosie....so why do we need stupid laws presided over by a person with no more brain cells than an Amoeba....
    If you wish ,you can draw up a partnership agreement....but it has nothing to do with common law 
      March 18, 2018 8:23 AM MDT
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