This just in: heteros are destroying the sacred institution
What is marriage? Now I'm even more baffled than I was before. According to this article I just read in the Chronicle, a 2003 census report found that 3 million married couples live in separate houses. The statistic includes separated married couples, but it also includes those who choose to not live with their spouse indefinitely and intentionally. Living situations include having 2 separate apartments in the same apartment building, living in separate houses, and in separate cities. Some just divide up the house they have into units with different addresses but share utilites.
The article featured this one married couple who live in my neighborhood (rich muthafuckers) and own a house and rent a separate apartment across the street. They call this LAT, or Living Apart Together, a nickname for couples who are committed to each other but choose to live separately. I have my own name for it: Fuck Buddies. Or perhaps they are gay and using each other as mutual beards. Hey! That's another great euphemism, Mutual Beards. "Hi I'm Adam and this is my wife, Eve. And this is my roommate Steve!"
I'm not trying to straight-bash here, but isn't this type of behavior the very thing that is unraveling the sacred fabric that is woven into the institution of marriage? Marriage (you know that precious thing that is reserved for only a man and woman) is about living together literally and figuratively, sharing ideas and dreams, making choices together, building a future and a family. But it's also about washing each other's dirty underwear and dealing with your spouse's strange obsession with keeping Ziplock bag behind the refrigerator that's filled with found items from the street. I'm not just being traditional about this, I honestly think there are twice as many benefits to the number of challenges in living with the person you love, and spending time with each other is the best way to get to know each other and grow together. Living apart is rigid, complicated and cold. Who will warm your cold feet at night when you get into bed all alone? When you're sick, who will get your cough medicine and a glass of water in the middle of the night and collect and discard your boogies tissues in the morning? There's no negotiation, no sharing, no compromise, and a serious lack of risk and spontaneity.
It's all a mystery to me. I guess in one way I am just downright confused, but moreover I am angry that not only are THEY, these LAT commitmentphobes/incompatibles, hogging all the rights and privileges, but they are selfishly recreating the concept for their own convenience. They can redefine marriage, we cannot. Where is the conservative right wing when you need them?
The article featured this one married couple who live in my neighborhood (rich muthafuckers) and own a house and rent a separate apartment across the street. They call this LAT, or Living Apart Together, a nickname for couples who are committed to each other but choose to live separately. I have my own name for it: Fuck Buddies. Or perhaps they are gay and using each other as mutual beards. Hey! That's another great euphemism, Mutual Beards. "Hi I'm Adam and this is my wife, Eve. And this is my roommate Steve!"
I'm not trying to straight-bash here, but isn't this type of behavior the very thing that is unraveling the sacred fabric that is woven into the institution of marriage? Marriage (you know that precious thing that is reserved for only a man and woman) is about living together literally and figuratively, sharing ideas and dreams, making choices together, building a future and a family. But it's also about washing each other's dirty underwear and dealing with your spouse's strange obsession with keeping Ziplock bag behind the refrigerator that's filled with found items from the street. I'm not just being traditional about this, I honestly think there are twice as many benefits to the number of challenges in living with the person you love, and spending time with each other is the best way to get to know each other and grow together. Living apart is rigid, complicated and cold. Who will warm your cold feet at night when you get into bed all alone? When you're sick, who will get your cough medicine and a glass of water in the middle of the night and collect and discard your boogies tissues in the morning? There's no negotiation, no sharing, no compromise, and a serious lack of risk and spontaneity.
It's all a mystery to me. I guess in one way I am just downright confused, but moreover I am angry that not only are THEY, these LAT commitmentphobes/incompatibles, hogging all the rights and privileges, but they are selfishly recreating the concept for their own convenience. They can redefine marriage, we cannot. Where is the conservative right wing when you need them?
posted by Freewendy @ 1:10 PM
1 Comments:
At 11:03 AM,
Freewendy said…
If you're living with someone who refuses affection, then that's a WHOLE different story, which I don't care to tackle here. I will let Dr. Phil and the Lord himself handle that one.
Ah-men
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