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POINT: Marriages, Like Home Mortgages, Are Meant to be Forever

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Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marriage Advocate

A recent trend has been to accept and promote modified marriage vows. Instead of taking a vow to stay married "as long as we both shall live," couples are increasingly using other phrases that show an awareness of divorce numbers - and an acceptance that maybe their marriage is doomed from the start.

Vows like "For as long as we continue to love each other," "For as long as our love shall last" and "Until our time together is over" are increasingly replacing the traditional to-the-grave vow - a switch that some call realistic and others call a recipe for failure.

(Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163251,00.html)

Changing the wording seems to send a message that anyone - even poor and non-famous people - can look at marriage as an arrangement of convenience that you can drop as soon as you encounter any setbacks or a particularly cute Greek waiter with an abdomen that you could bounce a quarter off of. And that is wrong, for some people. How can the revolving-door marriages of the beautiful people keep the public's interest if any Tom, Dick, or Barry can get married for a weekend like Brittany or Liz?

It's like my agent and fourth husband said to me as he carried me over the threshold, "Get a divorce as soon as you like, but if you want a new agent, remember: We have a contract."

COUNTERPOINT: Every Deal Needs an Escape Clause

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I think Zsa Zsa is not thinking this problem through. This new wording of vows simply shows that people have a more realistic and honest view of marriage. They accept that it is likely going to crash and burn early, so why pretend?

This new wording on vows ("For as long as the marriage is good," or "For the weekend and we'll see how it goes," or whatever) helps people feel better. Let's face it, the traditional wording invokes an idea that marriage lasts a lifetime and that concept - as pointed out in the article - can "give you a stigma of personal failure" in the event of divorce. This new wording removes all of the risk - allowing either party to bail with a clear conscience at the first sign of a problem. And more importantly, they don't have a stigma - which might be a drag for them on alternate weekends when they drop by to see their kids, schedule permitting.

And the marriange agreement itself can easily be based on the ones already in use by the mobile phone industry. Those contracts are almost perfect for this, anyway: the parties will set a base term where nights and weekends are included, with the level of service defined before-hand. There will, of course, still be severe penalties for roaming.

And Zsa Zsa may underestimate the new contracts' possibilities for helping couples stay together, too. Currently, divorce takes $45, two signed forms, and a lunch break at the courthouse - contrast that to the new contract terms for phone service. Have you tried getting out of one of those recently?!

This idea might single-handedly end divorce in this country.


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