A Marriage Alternative: How Considering a Shift to Temporary Marriage Might Benefit Your Relationship
What people need to succeed in marriage is philosophical alignment.
By Matthew Fray
My brain and gut recoiled in disgust at the two words: Temporary Marriage.
They were hyperlinked in my email to an article I was certain I would disagree with—A Temporary Marriage Makes More Sense than Marriage for Life.
But then I read it.
I’m a lot a better at admitting when I’m wrong and checking my biases at the door today than I used to be, since doing it the other way is literally the reason me and so many others are divorced despite wishing we were not.
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Whenever a philosophical conversation is happening about The Way Things Should Be (politics and religion, in a nutshell), there are two things to consider:
- The best idea in an ideal world under optimum conditions.
- The best idea based on its implications in the world we actually live in.
Which isn’t a small thing. The worst events and conditions in human history usually begin with two people or two groups with opposing opinions regarding this nebulous concept of…
