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From: ix200@sdcc6.UUCP (Bruce Jones)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Living in sin?
Message-ID: <1883@sdcc6.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 23:41:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 23:41:45 1985
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References: <201@tekred.UUCP> <257@teklds.UUCP>
Reply-To: ix200@sdcc6.UUCP (Bruce Jones)
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Summary: 

In article <257@teklds.UUCP> larryg@teklds.UUCP (Karen Clark) writes:
>
>What does everybody think?  
>
>I think living together is a copout to real commitment and being willing
>to wait for someone instead of wanting the pleasures of marriage without
>the responsibilities.

I think (having perfect 20/20 hindsight) that no piece of paper
insures commitment.  I found it easy to cop out on my marriage six
years before I manipulated my ex-wife into terminating it.

Later, while in a "living in sin" relationship, (what a horse-shit
term) I found myself more commited to the well-being and success of
the relationship than I had ever been in my marriage.

There is nothing to prove that living with someone relieves one of
responsibility.  In fact, in my one live-in relationship, there was
more responsibility because she has two children and I have one and
we accepted the responsibility for the care and feeding of the
other's kid(s).

The only thing about living together is it is easier to split the
sheets.  Not any less painful and perhaps more so, just easier.
-- 
Bruce Jones

   "I have just begun considering 
      the possibilities of the next disaster"