Obviously, I'm new to your flist and don't know all the details that led to this, but I just wanted to say that there is nothing wrong with having your primary relationship be with your spouse.
Of course one should choose (should it never come to that though) a spouse over friends and extended family. As you said, it is a commitment and should be honored as such. Too many people today see marriage as a thing to do, rather than a statement of being.
Marriage is a promise of love that transcends all promises that our "blood" may make for us. The only thing that should be stronger is the bond of mother to child.
I'm probably not making sense, but its because I value marriage, the idea that it embodies so much that I support what you say. That's also why I support the idea of gay marriage. Giving the same rights without the word itself is crazy, because they are somehow trying to say that one type of love is then less than another. Love is love, and a true promise of love knows no gender or legal boundaries.
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Date: 2005-05-12 04:36 am (UTC)Of course one should choose (should it never come to that though) a spouse over friends and extended family. As you said, it is a commitment and should be honored as such. Too many people today see marriage as a thing to do, rather than a statement of being.
Marriage is a promise of love that transcends all promises that our "blood" may make for us. The only thing that should be stronger is the bond of mother to child.
I'm probably not making sense, but its because I value marriage, the idea that it embodies so much that I support what you say. That's also why I support the idea of gay marriage. Giving the same rights without the word itself is crazy, because they are somehow trying to say that one type of love is then less than another. Love is love, and a true promise of love knows no gender or legal boundaries.