Marriage, an outdated institution?

by John Colagioia



Frankly speaking, matrimony has never been necessary, at to the lowest degree non for most people.


I mean, inwards the broadest feel of it, matrimony is 1 or both of 2 things:

  1. A annunciation of dearest as well as commitment to somebody
  2. A laid upwards of rules of inheritance

The commencement (declaration of love) doesn't demand whatever official recognition. Even formal commitments larn broken, as well as so it's non a protection as well as people who are committed to each other volition to a greater extent than ofttimes than non rest committed.

The instant (rules of inheritance) doesn't affair unless you're rich or powerful as well as are (therefore) worried close another man's small-scale (with your wife) inheriting or as well as so of your stuff.

And it doesn't actually fifty-fifty affair if y'all are rich as well as powerful, because they won't inherit whatever of your things until you're dead.

In a lot of ways, I yell back of matrimony every bit a form of Cargo cult mentality.

Kings worry close their wives as well as princes to ensure continuity of the crown, as well as so other people assume it's important.

The overwhelming bulk of people could non endure bothered to tending close inheritance as well as never fifty-fifty detect the departure inwards their lives.

Of course, the inquiry beingness asked powerfulness non endure abstract as well as philosophical, as well as instead a logical as well as social one.

In that case, matrimony matters merely every bit much every bit it matters to your community.

It's prissy to celebrate a working human relationship as well as that is nonetheless expected inwards most cultures.

And most governments assume matrimony to endure of import too, rigging the laws to encourage it inwards ways that become beyond (but nonetheless include) inheritance.

However, whether or non it is absolutely necessary, matrimony nonetheless surely is useful as well as tin also endure potentially pleasurable.

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John Colagioia


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