Artangel Who?
Mentioning no names but follow my eyes!! Ha!
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As a perfect husband I resemble that remark.
Well said. I was also surprised by some of the comments on this thread.
Yes, “Well Said” However…
It would appear that nearly all of the protesters about discarding the rules of marriage and getting a divorce are in fact ladies who are divorced themselves…
Perhaps they never intended abiding by the contract of marriage in the first place. And even if they had married John the Baptist, the result would have been the same.
Perhaps those who are still widowed (not including those who have lost their spouse, my heart goes out to those) were never destined to settle down to a life with one partner anyway. Plus, we only have their side of the story of what went wrong…Obviously the blokes fault… 
But it takes two to tango, and perhaps the vigour in which some of you have disagreed with me was in fact the reason why you find yourself in the position you are in.
I feel for some blokes who have divorced, once the luvvy duvvy stuff wears off the incessant nagging of some women is enough to drive a man to drink or worse…I never condone violence though I hasten to add…
I don’t think adultery is a just cause for a divorce. Sometimes one or the other is unable to do the business, but should this be reason for a life of celibacy? Of course not, If I can no longer do the decorating, Mrs Fox gets someone in… 
I would also like to point out that most of the blokes who fail to waft the flame of love back into life and look elsewhere, it’s usually with a married woman who lost her flame…
It’s been my experience that people don’t really change, that annoying little shit I went to school with is still an annoying little shit years later when we are reunited. One of the reasons I never look up old school friends.
I would have definitely have divorced John the Baptist all that goatskin clothing just doesn’t do it for me.
The rest of your post is so appalling words fail me.
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It’s hard for some folks to divorce their own Ego’s, that’s where a lot of the problems start.
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And, just when I thought that it couldn’t get any worse, it did! I’m in utter shock! The different levels of bias is just wow!
Art and I must have struck a nerve there but at least the true colours comes out.
I’m utterly disgusted, appalled and very disappointed in what I’ve just read.
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I agree with you @Gaia but I think the best course of action is to smile indulgently and let them get on with their ranting. It says more about their attitude towards marriage than towards those who have had the courage to get out of an unhappy one.
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All married couples should read the hugely popular book: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. It explains everything.
No more fighting: we are different, embrace it, vive la difference!
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Blimey, you are disgusted and disappointed very easily!
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More of a one upmanship!
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You and Mrs.Fox have more of a living arrangement than a marriage
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I think marriage is an outdated institution invented by the church. I always said I would never marry, if a man did not wish to stay with me I would not want him to do so because of a piece of paper .
My late husband was divorced, his first wife married him to get away from her awful parents and because she could see as a young army officer he had a bright future.
In the end I had to marry for the convenience of others, at the time couples living together was frown on by many institutions including the army.
Soulmates pair for life, if my husband hadn’t died so young I am sure we would have stayed together because we wanted to be together not because we were married .
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As far as it’s known you have but one life.
I believe life is all about getting through it as comfortably as possible .
If your marriage is loveless or soulless what is the point …move on…
Don’t die with regrets.
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@Ripple
I agree Ripple my only proviso is that you try to avoid causing pain to others.
My father stayed with my dreadful stepmother because they were ‘married’ and he did so to the detriment to his children who had a miserable childhood.
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It most certainly was introduced by religious orders and my lot were no different.
The legal codes of my lot’s Torah provided for marriage and divorce and required the marriage bond as a prerequisite for sexual relations. So no marriage, no nookie! It was a man’s world way back in the early days as marriage was dissolved either by the death of one spouse or by divorce. Although the Torah specified that a divorce was to be initiated by the husband, the amoraim (the old rabbinic sages in the third through fifth centuries) developed methods for bringing about a divorce at the wife’s request under certain circumstances, which was a very rare event if at all. I’m becoming more convinced as time passes that religion was ‘invented’ as a way of mass control🤬
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Oh how sad for you xx
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The dynamics of a marriage change with Age, time and health Chelsea, but my love for Mrs fox is perennial…
Good post LongDriver…However…(there always seems to be a ‘However’) 
Do the masses need to be controlled?
I sometimes think they/we do…Otherwise there would be chaos and debauchery…Wait a minute…What’s happening in England today… 
Where would we be without the laws of the land? I think Britain went tits up at just about the same time that we turned our backs on religion in favour of science. The muslims are still holding on to their fundamental values to some extent, I can’t really comment on ‘Your Lot’ LongDriver, or most other religions because I don’t hear much about them.
When Moses disappeared up the mountain for a while, look what happened to his followers…They worshipped a golden cow, drank to excesses and procreated with anything that had a pulse…
To say Moses was pee’d off was an understatement, but it just goes to show what society would become, or has become, without the guiding hand of religion…Any religion…
‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding is a less religious example of what happens to society without direction. We are constantly being undermined by the MSM and the internet, not all of the internet or MSM, but enough to make a difference.
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