(cross posted from the myspace blog)
So I was talking to a friend tonight on the phone and we continued a discussion we were having on AIM about marriage. I had told her that I don’t want to get married, something I decided on a while ago honestly, but tend to go back and forth on. I mentioned the possibility of an open marriage, but that’s about it for the Killa.
I don’t really see the point of marriage anymore to be completely honest. I mean I can see myself falling in love with some lucky chick one day and loving her with all of my heart, but I don’t think I need a ceremony and a ring and a bunch of people to validate it for me.
This isn’t the days of the yesteryear where you’d be burned at the stake and have to be brandished a town hussy and harlot. With 50% (or more) of all marriages ending in divorce and countless others mired in uncomfortable agreements of mutual misery, it just doesn’t appeal to me.
Hell even the tax breaks aren’t worth it honestly, at least until you have kids and I should check with my accountant friends, but it might work out BETTER for both parties to remain UNMARRIED.
Then there is the elephant in the room that no one ever really likes to talk about (but luckily for me, my friend was game!), sex. That’s what it usually boils down to for marriage for alot of people, it’s why alot of marriages end, and why alot of marriages go through undue stress. People don’t talk about what they like, they REALLY don’t talk about what they don’t like, and they think by doing the same things over and over eventually something will change for the positive (the definition of insanity). Sometimes it’s pride…everybody think’s that their sex is the best. Sometimes it’s the inability to hurt your loved one’s feelings. Either way you end up doing something far more hurtful in the long run. You either suppress the feelings until they explode or you cheat. But monogamy is so natural right?
The Killa ain’t with it homie….it all ends in the song I’m listening to….”Hollywood Divorce”….eff that!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:24 am
Monogamy is natural my ASS!
I keep telling everyone who is considering marriage to consider this: When people talk about, “Marriage is a sacrifice.” The sacrifice they are REALLY talking about is being with ONE person for the rest of your life. That’s the “price” you pay for that person to be at home when you get there from work, have dinner on the table, bear your children, do your laundry, clean, be that person who decides if you live or die if something horrible happens. That’s the trade-off.
Now, if you happen upon your soul mate (I believe in these), then it’s all good. But how many people find this, or at least THINK they find this? Probably like 15%, and I think that’s being generous.
Marriage ain’t for everyone not because there isn’t someone for everyone, but because people go to that alter with varied and unreal expectations of what happily-ever-after should be opposed to what it really is. The ONLY reason to get married is for true love, and that’s it. That, “It’s time for me to settle down shit…”, that’s nonsense.