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Originally Posted by GT0132
Also times change and people change , so while at the moment a person may think they want to spend the rest of their life with someone, that can change as evidenced by our ever increasing divorce rate.
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People's expectations of marriage changed and societies tolerance of divorce changed. Marriage isn't about sex and romance but a lot of people get married because they want sex and romance.
A long term relationship is about teaming up to take on life. Our grandparents knew that, people post ww2 expected more. When they didn't get it they changed the law so they could bail more easily.
People get together because they want to have sex. It takes 2 - 3 years for the novelty to wear off and only then do you really start to notice the person inside the body you've been sleeping with. You probably have only a 50% chance of liking that person. That's fine as long as you haven't tied yourselves together during that honeymoon period, financially, matrimonially or worse of all parentally. If there are no kids you can take the hit and get on with it, if there are kids you are ruining their lives. Ask me how I know....