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Interesting to consider the downside of making divorce easier. There seems to be an implicit purpose in marriage of making breakup difficult: we know going in
by onos 5y ago
Interesting to consider the downside of making divorce easier. There seems to be an implicit purpose in marriage of making breakup difficult: we know going in that difficult periods can occur and to better assure we will make it though them we agree to enforcing a harsh penalty to doing this. presumably we do this because we expect most tough periods to eventually end, allowing the relationship to be positive once again.
- DaltonCoffee 5y agoThe marriage tradition doesn't seem well suited to many modern relationships and people. People now change jobs and relationships more than predecessor generations. It's unfair to hold people to old standards designed for different societal norms.
- hogrider 5y agoBut it's only a penalty for the "breadwinner", it seems to me for the other side it's a massive profit for a few years of marriage.