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.

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[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

My 21 year-old sister is getting married in 10 days. Hopefully, the fact the wedding's in Inverurie isn't having you too close.

I remember a moment in third year when I realised all couples I'd known two years previously had either split up or got married. Impermenance is scary.

[davidn]

For our year in Melville, the equivalent was that absolutely everyone - with no exceptions - got together with one of the JYA/SYAs from America, and many of us married later. gr33bo and I came to Melville in my first year without knowing each other, and a few years later, both have in-laws living not half a kilometre apart from each other in a city on the other side of the world.