🌼 007

[determines]

[locked from Rita]

If two people are having a baby, they should get married, right?

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[whitechocolate]

Not if they don't love each other.

[determines]

But they do.

[kittyhell]

That's a little archaic, isn't it?

[determines]

... I don't know what that means.

[kittyhell]

It's old fashioned.

Marriage is something you should do if you love someone, not just because you get pregnant.

[determines]

But he does love her. I know he does.

[kittyhell]

Is marriage proof of love then?

[determines]

Sometimes.

[kittyhell]

Sometimes, but you don't need to be married to love someone right? Besides marriage is hardly a symbol of love when you think about it.

[determines]

Yes it is. That's why we have it.

[kittyhell]

Hardly, marriage exists because it is good business it's a concept that has been around since before people started calling it sacred. Often times women were products to be given away in exchange for something else.

[determines]

Not anymore. It's illegal.

[kittyhell]

Be that as it may marriage was not founded on the concept of love which is the most important thing. Love is more powerful and binding than a marriage that could be easily destroyed by a prenup or wrapped up in the red tape of alimony. So you see, marriage is still business.

So, does she love him in return?

[determines]

[... she's going to have to look up some of these words]

Yeah. But he didn't ask her.

[kittyhell]

Believe me, if two people love each other that's more important than anything, especially since love doesn't require anything special in return. It merely gives.

[determines]

Then why do people get married at all?

[kittyhell]

I suppose people have their reasons, the legal perks, the security of knowing your bonded to another person and they can't or they normally wouldn't wander off after the honey-moon, hearing that person declare their love publically...but more than half of marriages end in divorce so you got me.

[grey_grief]

They should if they want to. If they don't want to, they don't have to.

[yacantdoitkid]

That ain't always the best plan.

[glass_secret]

Not necessarily. Not everyone is cracked up for marriage.

[a_new_innovator]

Well... I'd think if they loved each other they should, but it is up to them and their situation.

[starofchaos]

That depends on the people involved. Many things can result in a refusal to marry. I did not marry the mothers of my children, though I did not abandon them.

[determines]

But Mom and Dexter's wouldn't. And my baby brother or sister should know that their parents love each other that much.

[determines]

Why wouldn't they want to? They're in love.

[determines]

It's what you're supposed to do when you love somebody.