Conservative Competition Continues
ChatterBank1 min ago
Being on show all the time, meeting and being nice to thousands of complete strangers, making speeches, your whole life mapped out for you from where you go to work to what you wear to work - and to paraphrase the late queen, having the smell of fresh paint up your nose wherever you go? I always imagine Camilla - who on the day of the coronation looked for all the world like she'd much rather be somewhere else - getting home from her duties, kicking her shoes off, flopping down on the sofa and saying 'Thank God that's over'. Could you do the job?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I read that in the UK 42% of marriages end in divorce annually - so much for a church or civil service with friends & family being a "lifetime commitment to someone you love".
I did once propose to a live-in partner but fortunately she turned me down. I think she has now been divorced 3 times and "tried out" a number of other intimate partners. But currently lives alone.
//Dave, do you think it is somehow wrong for a woman to have sex with as many men as she wants to?//
Did I say that? I'm sure she entered into all her relationships in the hope that the guy would be "the one". It just didn't happen & either she hit on a whole series of unsuitable men or she has dificulty sustaining relationships.
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Totally agree with your earlier post apart from the mentally ill bit. I don't think we on the outside can judge the mental capacity of members of the RF. They rarely "go off script" - so how can we judge their faculties?
Also - ignore anyone who calls you childish for stating your point of view.
sp - bear with me here......LoL
I, too, have similar thoughts as you regards the ease with which some people jettison their marriages....
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I wonder whether that is because folks like thee and me, SP, spent so long unable to marry?
Like you, I married my long-term love, in front of family and friends and it felt (and still feels) deeply 'profound' and I can't imagine ever throwing away my marriage, or letting it be thrown away.
It's very easy for people like me who are happily married and couldn't imagine a different life to say that marriage is for life, honour those sacred vows and promises til death do us part.
I remember battered women, cowed men, very unhappy and desperate marriages when divorce was expensive and frowned upon. When it wasn't so easy for a woman to take her children from the family home (usually in husband's name only) and support them.
I knew one young mother in the 60s who tried to leave her husband when she found out he had made a 16 year old girl pregnant. She went to her mother's with the children and was told to go home - she made her bed...
Is it really better to stay in an utterly miserable marriage with the possibility that one day one of them will reach breaking point and do something dreadful?
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