Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (The Blackguard of the West) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social Subject: Re: Living in sin? Message-ID: <1795@pucc-h> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 18:48:11 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1795 Posted: Wed Feb 6 18:48:11 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 02:09:19 EST References: <295@stat-l>, <1117@houxm.UUCP> Organization: Cordes Junction Lines: 29 Xref: watmath net.singles:5789 net.social:449 Greg Skinner (houxm!gregbo) quoted Rich Kulawiec (stat-l:rsk), and I have a comment applicable to both their comments. >> For these among other reasons, I've decided that if I ever tie the >> knot (gasp! shudder!), the words "...til death do you part" will not appear >> in the ceremony. I think it's pretty bogus to make a promise contingent on >> one's emotional state years later...perhaps a better phrasing would be >> "...til it doesn't work anymore". A bit of a radical proposal, I know, but >> at least it's honest (for me). [Kulawiec] > A lot of people seem to be writing their own vows these days. I guess that's > the best thing to do if you're going to get married by the state and you're > not sure that you can keep the traditional marriage vows. [Skinner] I have seen more than one church wedding which was rather non-traditional, though the spirit of the vows was traditional. (In one wedding, all the principals were in Renaissance costume, including the minister!) I applaud Rich's honesty, but I would invite him to compare his contemplated vows with those of a couple (not the Renaissance couple) whose (church) wedding I attended in September. They wrote their own vows, in which they said (among other things) the following to each other (approximate quote from memory): "I will work for your fulfillment through all the changes of your life." Being unmarried myself, I will make no further comment. -- -- Jeff Sargent {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq "Head him off at the pass!" (advice by a mother to her daughter)