People would be more careful about who they married & try harder to make a marriage work. The singer Adele recently git divorced & said it was for *no reason* at all. I'll take her word for it since these music artists are major attention whores who always have to talk about their personal bs.
Yea usually they say “irreconcilable differences.” With adele, she probably started feeling herself too much since she's skinny now. She prob wanted a hot girl summer 💀
Other: I would fake my own death by disappearing and moving to Central America and changing my name to Pepe and growing a mustache - just like Carol Baskin’s deceased husband did.
All of these things but I think on general only serious people will get married and vet who they sleep with better if that's what they wanted. Follow scripture and actually understand you can get divorced from a cheater and both husband and wives submit their bodies equally in a marriage so both give it up when called to do so. Likely marriage would be more functional if followed According to biblical doctrine. I think the Abrahamic religions give order where without more chaos can ensue. That's not to say religious marriages would always work. It might be good for church leaders to keep good tabs on their flock to protect against physical or sexual abuse. Also I maybe have enforced fidelity laws. Freedom is great, no doubt. But I believe in preserving the greater good. And like a good marriage a society with compromise will flourish and remain orderly. A better environment for children to grow up stable and functional. I know, I know very unpopular opinion. I'm just stating that I believe balance is key in all as of life. Unchecked hedonism is very destructive based on human history and what I've observed. It is what it is.
Thanks. I wish so many people weren't so hostile to my opinion on it... but it is what it is. if people want an open marriage or cuckatry sign a legal document before the vows if you really want. But if both parties don't agree then absolutely no way. And at any point a spouse should be able to request/demand an end to that practice if it's causing strife mentally, emotionally, or with their family. Give benefits and incentives to loyal couples who stay married. Certain nations did that. If you had 3+ kids and stayed married you'd get a monthly check to cushion the household. Ironically this was something popularized by Russia and Germany in WW2. Family units were very strong as a result however. Let's promote strong families, not hook up culture
ANYONE is only as 'married' as they CHOOSE to be. Nature is pragmatic... 'fidelity' is a default investment in the most opportune circumstances for YOUR NEXT generation.
YOUR genes and YOUR PARTNER'S genes are invested to make in an offspring. The 'default' natural inclination is to invest YOUR efforts in the SURVIVAL of that offspring... you physically 'nurture' them, ... you 'educate' them how best to navigate this 'reality'.
YOUR lives are all FINITE. MOST invest their unique genes about 1/3-2/3rds through their life's span. You pair your DNA and within EVERY cell there are telomeres. Every time each of your cells reproduce, those telomeres grow shorter or are even damaged. Tick-tock, tick-tock. Humans evolved into extended families, tribes, clans... SOME into polyamory, to diversify and yet perpetuate their GROUP'S unique characteristics.
There are cultures wherein 'group marriages' exist, harkening back to our primate heredity. Exclusivity is only viable in the presence of ample resources, lest it defaults to dominance of the most fierce. Again, an atavistic primate trait.
Well... sometimes you've gotta step out of your immediacy, to get an understanding of what is actually 'driving' your subconscious behaviors.
Once consciously and dispassionately understood, you CAN choose to either Machivellian-ly exploit them advantageously to greater gain or... seize control of your 'animism' to prevent being 'play-ed' and exploited.
To me it pretty much has to be C. Marriage rates have been falling for the last four or five years. So I don't see the percentage of couples getting married flat lining if divorce wasn't a option. But is can see them drop lower due to the change and probably faster then one would think. Simply because I can see people going from wanting to get married to never wanting to married if divorce was take off the table.
I sure as hell wouldn't be surprise if there was a massive spike in divorces right before the no divorce law goes into effect. Shit I'd love to be a divorce lawyer when people started talking about a no divorce law possibly becoming a reality.
I've known couples that just moved out, moved in with another guy... lived with them for years, one of them for over a decade while still married to their husband. The other was just a few years.
Guys often aren't in a hurry to file for divorce in those situations cause the system usually screws them over. One of the guys moved in with another woman but the other just lived alone. I suspect this is what would or could happen a lot... I know someone right now that has been married for 27 years and his wife just said she was going to vegas to visit her family, and decided she wanted to stay there. Her husband nicely took several loads of her stuff down there and dropped it off. Neither of them is planning on a divorce.
Divorce was a non option in the past. As for affairs being more common that would be hard, there's probably >50% people in marriage that have sex with someone who they are not married to. I don't think murder would increase, but if open marriages were options then they'd probably increase
Then I would personally not get married.. does not really mean anything to me since I am not religious. Just makes some legal stuff easier, but can sure pay more money and fill out some more documents. But what would a marriage even mean in this context? Do you need to live together? If there is just some paper saying we are married then I also do not care.. my parents are not divorced and got separated more than 20 years ago, just friends now. Would not mind that. For the public I think people who are religious would have more affairs and stay unhappily married.. the none-religious would not get married.
well... I do assume most divorces happen because spouses aren't happy with their marriage so now, they would be stuck with it... more people would stay unhappily married
I never thought I would marry when I was younger I was having too much fun to ruin it with some bullshit marriage then I met my wife but if there would of been a law like this I would never of said yes when she asked
Ideally, more people would work out their marital problems. But this is reality, and that's sadly the last thing on this list that would happen. I mean, don't get me wrong, there are people who would work things out.
You may have been joking, but the truth is, in the past even when divorce was an option, it was so heavily frowned upon and people felt such an immense pressure from society, that many of them chose to murder their spouse rather than get divorced.
So while it may have been a joke to you, it was deadly serious business back then, and even to some extent today in certain circles those pressures remain.
Marriage as its traditionally been known is dieing, and its got nothing to do with gay marriage. All marriages that end in divorce end in a legal contract.
But all you have to sign to get marriage is a license All the vows, promises and love mean nothing in a court of law. You should sign a legal contract to get married, not just give meaningless promises.
by the way, I voted for "Less People Would Ever Marry.". But I don't think we need to go to that extreme. I think people will be alright if they just thoroughly vet the candidates. And don't marry to first person you come to just because they're available.
Well for one B shouldn't even be an option because there's no such thing as an "open marriage" the concept goes against what marriage is.
As for the other options I feel like people would really, really make sure their partner was the one for them before committing and actually doing things the old fashioned way and taking your time with the relationship and you know actually putting an effort into fixing problems rather then just ignoring them and letting them build up.
I have not been allowed to have sex with my wife in 10 years, and have done nothing wrong. all she does is watch tv from the time she gets up till the time she goes to bed and talks on the phone. If I try talking on the phone she listens to everything I say, then asks what I mean last time my cousin and I were talking about her kittens
Unfortunately slot of men and women in this time period aren't ready for marriage. I can understand why because I hate to admit it but these days it is difficult trying to find the right girl or guy. Plus most marriages have been known to fail drastically.
Loads of people had to get married cause they were pregnant. my nan was forced by her mother to get married to her first husband even though she did love him but in the end he ended up becoming an abusive husband and i think if my nan had stayed married to him she would be dead. So divorce is needed in some cases to get out of dangerous marriages.
I goes many ways. It just depends on the couple how they are working their relationship. It can be work if they have something good between them. It can be a cheating type of couple for not being satisfied and people will not get married for watching all this shit happening.
I mean murders would rise I'm sure. Are poly relationships a thing here? Probably just end up marrying a lot of women until I find "the one". Actually would men and women's bodies be somewhat of a currency eventually? Like kings would trade wives or give daughters for shares of land or something. Marriage would be like getting a new Pokemon card for many I'd think. Be a very shitty world
I honestly just think they would do it anyways. Or they would do the closest to it, and get seperated. People would start recognizing it as the "new way of getting divorced", and it would be normalized to be with other people after seperating.
Getting rid of divorce would forcibly change the way people think about getting into marriage. So whatever immediate consequence you can reasonably imagine would not be the status quo forever more.
it's alotta layers to that specific cake now other than infidelity biblically divorce ain't an option i actually think most folks would avoid gettin legally married because of most women modern day women havin an angle behind gettin legally married and cats like me that's red pilled to female nature actually understandin that
A combination of the above, Unfortunately, a lot of people are trapped in marriages with no prospect of escape, and in a lot of countries it's not an option, even for people forced into marriages.
But both cheat. And i do get that men gold dig as well but based off a lot of posts, only the men seem to worry about women taking their money. So i was calling them out
I've always said, the number 1 cause of divorce is marriage. Too many people get married for stupid reasons and they're not mature enough to deal with reality... so they divorce.
You just have to look at a country like Ireland which still doesn't really have easy divorce, to see that it just results in a lot of unhappy marriages.
@DizzyDesii I divorced my ex and if I had not she might have killed me... lol She had Thyroid problems and did not know it. Her hormones were way off. We found out when she found out she was pregnant with our youngest. But she could not get on meds because she was pregnant so she went through 9 months of being pregnant on top of her hormones being out of whack from her thyroid problem. And I caught hell from it... lol I would come home from work and as soon as I walked in the door she would start throwing dishes at me. I would have to walk in and duck to keep from getting hit... ;)
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