Marriage should have an expiration date

You must have a license for a boat, to drive a car, to fly a plane, to run a business, to carry a firearm, to build a shed, to wire a house and to style hair. They all carry a time limit. Why should marriage be any different? Give it 4 or 5 years then must be renewed or given up. Would save alot of court time, lawyer expenses and hard feelings. Property could be settled through reaching agreements or filing suit. As for children, why not a license to have them?

 

Marriage DOES have an expiration date; all conditioned things are impermanent. It's just not printed on the bottle.

 

Marriage is no different from death and taxes, either you can avoid them or you can't, but its just another financial arrangement, with companies now preferring to hire single people straight out of college, who can work with AI, and don't need silly things like human company.

According to the statistics, marriage is about to become obsolete, along with the human race!

Nobody has set an exact expiration date yet...

 

Marriages should be for only 18 to 24 years...or until the nest is finally empty...then expire, but be renewable if both parties consent. This gives ample time to raise a family and then, go another round with someone else, if that suits the situation at that particular time. I've known too many old schoolers that stay miserable for the rest of their lives....the hell with that!

 

Marriage is not as important as true love. Sometimes marriage even causes people to give up on nurturing a true love.

 

It does. But the expiration dates differ between couples. Some may expire after a few months or years. Some may expire after a decade or more. Some may expire when one or both members have passed away.

 

I have been with the same partner for 50 years. Sure problems arise, things go well, things go badly, shit happens. I don't think that an expiration date makes any sense at all. People stay together or don't. As for the empty nest scenario. We always knew we would go back to being vagabonds when the girls left so when our youngest daughter finished art school we sold everything and left the country with no forward plan.
If you make a commitment to someone you stay with them until circumstances change. There are no rules.

 

Indeed not, and rules designed for one marriage are going to be FUBAR for another.

When cruising you adjust the sails when weather changes. Not any different.

 

That's a good analogy

 

Mahalo. Been a cruiser and a delivery skipper, so have a spot of experience.