The cake, the dress and the drunken uncle

[rainsinger]

I seem to have started my fast on an energetic note by eating something poisonous, so spent a pitiful stint moaning in the bathroom as my body attempted to purge itself of, it seemed, everything it had ever eaten. Damn you, Virgo rising, and the acutely sensitive digestive system

Comments

[mooism]

Marriage for life isn’t that bad an idea when most people will only live to be forty or so. But these days we have a pensions crisis.

[modalverben]

I once took the meat out of sandwiches and ate the bread, I was as sick as a dog.

[miss_newham]

I did the self-same thing on Saturday and survived, I am the hardest Tube Walker of all!

As for everything else, it has given me a lot to ponder. Hmmm...

distracted waffle

[mzdt]

Hmmm. I lived with a woman with a fairly traditional outlook for around three years. She said she liked me as I was, but apparently there were lots of things she wanted to change about me...

One of them was my attitude to marriage - to her it was almost an ultimate goal. At one point (at a party, actually) she told me she was going to tell people we were engaged, and refused to understand why I was so against that. Isn't being engaged telling people you are getting married?

I do realise that my fierce need for independence is not a common trait.

Oh, it is - amongst my generation, or social group, anyway. I'm not going to suggest for a second that there are no differences in opportunities between the genders, but things are a lot better than for the previous generation. House prices might push things backward, but at least in theory we don't need to be in a relationship for housing or financial security. We can be with someone because we want to be, split up when we want. FT, mentioned above, wanted the married status 'to show

Re: distracted waffle

[rainsinger]

At one point (at a party, actually) she told me she was going to tell people we were engaged, and refused to understand why I was so against that

Wow. that's kind of creepy.

[livemeat]

What is is that draws us to marriage?
Being told from the age when one is able to comprehend that it's 'the right hing to do', irrespective of whether you buy into the religion that's telling you that it's the case.

[saucebook]

wise words on marriage and partnership, none of which I would disagree with. but I feel an irrational desire to defend saint Bob, even without having seen the programme.

[rainsinger]

Fair enough :)
I've got nothing against the man's music mind.
And as dubaiyan said he is pleasingly scruffy.

However, outside of music scenarios at which he's great i was mostly getting insight into why his wife might have left him.