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In <343DAB89.8382504C@seas.gwu.edu.NOSPAM> Alan Davis
<adavis@seas.gwu.edu.NOSPAM> writes: 
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>Carol Ann Hemingway wrote:
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>> In <343CFB58.4FEE557A@seas.gwu.edu.NOSPAM> Alan Davis
>> <adavis@seas.gwu.edu.NOSPAM> writes:
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>> >Where a marriage is based oncontractual obligations, it will
>> >fold, as most business partnerships,>even the best ones, ultimately
>> do.>Where a marriage is based on>an eternal promise and submittal
>> >to *each other*, it will last.
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>>             Fine;  when that "submission" is one of equality,
>>             call me.
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>You didn't give me your snail mail address,much less your phone
number.

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            You have my email;  that will suffice.
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>But since we are discussing *objectives*,
>the 'submission' of equality is in the verse
>I gave you.
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>> >The whole "richer, for poorer"
>> >thing does have merit.  It is the
>> >only promise under which a marriage will
>> >last.  In every marriage, richer and
>> >poorer *will* occur.  Lefty's
>> >contractual paradigm mandates that
>> >the marriage fail and be dissolved.
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>> >Pity.
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>>          If a marriage fails, it fails, whether or not it is legally
>>           disolved.  Before divorce, men who didn't want to stay,
>>          left, and women who didn't want to stay (who had other
>>           options) left.  All divorce did was find a way to make
>>          the leaving more equitible to both parties.  To pretend
>>           that getting rid of divorce will solve marital problems
>>           is only sticking your head in the sand.
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>>                 Lefty
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>I said nothing of the sort.  I suggest that  a mind setin which a
partner>bales when the going gets>tough is a breach of promise.

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            It really depends upon the promise, and the actions
            of the parties.  Each case is unique;  that's why
            those who CLAIM a breach of promise have to go to
            court to see if it realy was one.

                Lefty