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originally posted by: EasternShadow
a reply to: Nyiah
So you think it's right to make promise you can't keep?
You think it's OK for family to break up?
If you make careful choice of whom you should marry in the first place, then none of this could happen. Yet your selfishness and ignorance is the cause why many kids having traumatic experience due to their parents divorce.
What is the purpose of your marriage's vow? Why do you hastily marry someone you don't know well enough?
originally posted by: Subrosabelow
Uhhh, so in what way was my mom to blame for my father beating the living crap out of her constantly when he was in a drunken rage? So, in your view, she should have stayed and endured the black eyes and split lips and bruises all over her body? She should have looked the other way while he spent all the money on other women during the marriage?
originally posted by: Subrosabelow
I'm not even sure what to say about your statement. You have such an incredibly black and white view of marriage and vows. Sorry bud. My "father" shattered those vows the moment he laid a hand on her. He had already destroyed the marriage quite nicely all on his own. She was in NO way obligated to stay and endure when he'd already broken the vows.
originally posted by: testingtesting
a reply to: EasternShadow
I was with the first one around four happy years until we got married and she started getting violent, I stuck it out for a year before I had enough.
But yeah I should have stuck it out despite that would have ended much much worse.
Sorry but your views are stupid.
We do not live in 1099 it is 2018.
originally posted by: EasternShadow
a reply to: Nyiah
So you think it's right to make promise you can't keep?
You think it's OK for family to break up?
If you make careful choice of whom you should marry in the first place, then none of this could happen.
Yet your selfishness and ignorance is the cause why many kids having traumatic experience due to their parents divorce.
What is the purpose of your marriage's vow? Why do you hastily marry someone you don't know well enough?
originally posted by: paraphi
Just drag us back to the OP, if anyone is still awake!
1. The Queen is the Head of the Church of England, so if she's OK with the wedding of her grandson to a divorced American woman who ain't fully white, then who is to say "no"?
2. Merkle was confirmed into the Church of England prior to her marriage.
3. Marrying in white is a choice, nothing more. It's only a recent (19th century) tradition anyway. She did look good though.
4. Merkle was not a stripper as asserted by the OP. That's just tabloid wishful thinking, and the OP's been gullible to reference it.
5. A small point... The break from the Catholic Church in the English Reformation which was started by Henry VIII and consolidated by Elizabeth I was the first time England has saved Europe. It ensured the success of Protestantism and put the fatal knife into the Catholic stranglehold. Without Catholicism being so weakened we'd all still be ignorant peasants as the scientific revolution would have been snubbed out by screams of heresy. The US would not be what it is today.
originally posted by: Nyiah
S# happens.
originally posted by: Nyiah
It's not the end of the world if both parents, and step-parents, are still actively involved with the kids.
originally posted by: Nyiah
Yeah, well, the world doesn't work like that, people get swept up in the rush of love that knocks out common sense. You'll experience it one day, too, you're not too good for snap judgements in the game of love.
originally posted by: Nyiah
Ask people who still do arraigned marriages with people they don't know at all about that one. They're kind of experts on it.
originally posted by: EasternShadow
We make that #. There is no else to blame. We are so bent on our selfness that we forget our partner.
Kids need both his father and mother. Without one of them, they will never experience love to the fullest. Not to mention, it will affect them physiologically. As a loving parent, why would we allow that to happen? Why should our selfishness get the best of ourself?
The world could be a better place if we all act righteously, not being drunk, hit our wife and children, wooing other females etc.. You don't have to believe in god. You just need to know what is right and what is wrong.
It's weird, arrange marriage usually work to the end, when People are more inclined to follow the bible in 1066.
originally posted by: Nyiah
You don't say! that's news to me! It's still out of YOUR control, and none of your business.
originally posted by: Nyiah
I had both, and the stepmother was a better parent than the ACTUAL mother was. I experienced plenty of love from the people it counted most from, whether or not you feel a step-parent is a "real" parent or not. You can kiss my ass.
originally posted by: Nyiah
Even "knowing" doesn't equal "doing". You are just going to have to get off your high horse & deal with it.
originally posted by: Nyiah
Only if you look at marriage length alone. Many wives are badly abused, and those who try to get out are hurt further, murdered or become social pariahs. Maybe you should move to the Middle East or India & live among your "ethical marriage" kind.