Comments - DONT REGRET GROWING OLDER ... - Gaia Community2024-03-29T00:54:31Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A14356&xn_auth=nohttps://www.youtube.com/watc…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2019-08-08:5313775:Comment:365482019-08-08T07:11:50.191ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="font-size-5"><strong><br></br><br></br>THE …</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="font-size-5"><strong><br/><br/>THE <em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/albert.klamt/posts/10151708414041994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contribution</a></em></strong> </span><em><span class="font-size-5">that marriage makes to social life does</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">not end </span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">with the intensive period of raising a young family.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>When <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/soulmates-from-the-outset" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a couple </a></strong></span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/soulmates-from-the-outset" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marry</a></strong>, they are not simply legalising their</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">sexual relationship – </span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">a step which few couples might think</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">necessary given the relaxed </span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">mores of contemporary society.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">They are making <strong>a</strong> <strong>public </strong></span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>declaration of their commitment</strong></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>to one another which j<u>oins </u></strong></span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong><u>their two families</u>.</strong></span></em><span class="font-size-5"> [</span><span class="font-size-5"><strong>IT</strong>] <strong>IS the</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="font-size-5"><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/make-the-right-connections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interconnecting network</a> of all those </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>conjoined families</strong></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>that <u>constitutes a community</u></strong>. Marriage is not </span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">simply a</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">testament to the present feelings of a man and a woman</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">but to their <strong>readiness to <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/personal-responsibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accept responsibility</a> for the</strong></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>future</strong>. </span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">So the stability of a long-standing marriage can</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5">offer</span></em></span> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>emotional </strong></span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>security not only to the first generation</strong></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>of children it produces, </strong></span></em></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>but to grandchildren, extended</strong></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span class="font-size-5"><strong>family and friends</strong>.</span></em></span></p>
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