Forever is unstable

[davidn]

When you're married, you start to make friends as couples rather than knowing people on their own. I'm not sure how that happens, but it does. But it seems that one set of our couple friends is about to become a pair of un-coupled friends now, because we've just heard that they're separating and one is throwing the other out.

With this development, this means that the majority of the weddings that I've attended (excluding our own) have been for marriages that ended in divorce. So if you get married, careful of inviting me.

Or make sure that you pair up as Christian/Jewish, American/British, Mac/PC user, science/arts student, because paradoxically all that seems to work just wonderfully.

Comments

[pami-zee.livejournal.com]

If you really are cursed, you're not invited to my wedding! Sorry, but I don't want a divorce :P

I think a lot of the time it's hard if you start off with a serious relationship and never date anyone else, because then you spend your time curious of what anything would be like with anyone else. Or think you might argue less with someone else. That sort of thing.

That's just my theory, but then, I don't believe in "Mr Right" or anything like that.

[starfishchris.livejournal.com]

There is a lot to be said for experience. Without it, nobody should be so arrogant to believe they know exactly what they want; you can learn a fair bit about yourself from close relationships of all kinds. You might still change, too, if you're young. I know I have.

Even for those who believe in "Mr Right", it is possible to be wrong about it. We're human, we're complex creatures capable of making mistakes no matter how hard we fight it. Even "Mr Right" is human - do people realise how difficult it is when you put someone on a pedestal? It's just not fair. It's very tiring being as awesome as I am, I need regular breaks...