I read an article saying gay and lesbian couples tends to separate more often. It also says marriages tends to last shorter and especially lesbians have a high divorce rate. Heterosexual couples tends to divorce much less frequently. I'm wondering why it's like that and if heterosexual marriages are better. Would it also be more effective not legalizing same-sex marriages?#Lgbt#Gay#GayMarriage
Perhaps it has something to do with the inherent difference in heterosexual relationships and homosexual relationships. What I mean by this would be, the natural state of human beings on this earth is when a heterosexual man and heterosexual woman mate to create another human being; therefore, this interaction can be said to be more natural than homosexual relationships that lack this ability and usually have to adopt. Two women and two men cannot create a baby by having sex with their same-sex partner. Now, what does this all mean? Well, I’m seriously lacking the vocabulary and intelligence to describe what I’m feeling, but perhaps it’s the homosexual couples’ feelings of anomie, strain, disenfranchisement, etc., as compared to heterosexual couples. I’m not sure if same sex relationships are inherent in nature or just some “accident” by virtue of evolution. This can cause confusion/frustration within the human brain of those in this category, which leads to deterioration of other areas in this people’s lives. What I’m talking about is strictly my interpretation about the biological information on this topic and nothing more.
This has been a known issue for at least a decade, because I remember the subject coming up in college sociology just before everything got ultra PC. Unfortunately all we really did was acknowledge it rather than look into it.
Based on what I've seen with my (lesbian) friends, I would attribute it to pretty much the same things that wreck straight marriages, except there's more of it. When both parties are largely emotionally-driven, it takes a lot less to set them both off, and there's rarely a clear voice of reason so reconciliation doesn't happen. Additionally, since the prospect of starting a family together is impossible without adoption or medical procedures, these marriages are for all intents and purposes indifferent from a relationship founded solely on personal pleasure, which is often fickle or fleeting. Another factor is religion. Most LGBT community people are not religious at all, so there is no real cultural motivation to "save" the marriage (making it easier to simply end it), while a straight, religious couple is more likely to tough it out, for better or worse.
Apparently LGBT people have more unstable mebtal health and they are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression. Also in heterosexual marriages no matter what happens couples choose to stay for various reasons, especially for their children. In heterosexual marriages we got a lot of stuff like, societal and moral values attached to marriage, purity/virginity, family connections, children's future and so many other factors attached that don't even come to question in homosexual marriages. Also arranged marriages tend to last more than love marriages so how many gay arranged marriages have you heard of so far?
Im all for gay rights and believe they deserve love, marriage and a happy life like everyone else but i think this maybe because once they started allowing it, gay people felt such a rush of relief and wanted it so badly some may have rushed things without thinking it through and been navie just because they finally had the chance to get married not because they had a strong, stable relationship and wanted to spend their life with that person
No study cited - which leads me to believe this is either a complete asspull, or, the source is very clearly unreliable.
But that's not important, what's more interesting, is the implication that same-sex marriage should therefore, not be legal. As if one couples ability to wed should be dependant upon another couples successful marriage. That's just ridiculous. It's very telling that the argument is only applied to same-sex marriages, not just marriages in general - if I were to suggest that if heterosexual divorce was also very high, that should be reason to outlaw heterosexual marriage, would you support that argument? I suspect not, and we know why.
I don't think same-sex or different-sex marriages should be illegal, but I asked this question in a provoking way intentionally to make an intense and interesting debate on GAG. I likes when people discuss and comes with different, but strong opinions on a subject. I've noticed that the more provoking a question is and the more "offensive" undertone it has, the more people are willingly to spend some time answering it.
I think regardless of how high or low a divorce rate is, making it illegal isn't justified since it's up to the consenting adults to choose what to do with their own lives. If you've followed me for a long time on GAG, you would know I've defended and advocated for LGBT's rights. I've even told conservative religious it's not a sin and told them why. Personally I'm into experimenting with different kinds of people.
I do however try to see most political cases from both sides regardless of it's sexuality, religion, racism, guns, death penalty, euthanasia etc. I do understand anti-LGBT's arguments and point of view, but I'm respectably disagreeing with them like how I disagrees with racists. Me understanding someone regardless of it's so called homophobes, nazis etc. doesn't mean I've to agree.
I've also read the statistics. They're interesting to read, but sadly these ones writing the statistics only states the numbers and not possible reasons for it.
Because there it's less likely one or both of them are financially trapped into keeping a bad relationship together, and there are less likely to be children involved.
As more economic equality develops in the heterosexual world, fewer heterosexual marriages last either.
Now that we accept that there are more ways for people to live than in a marriage, fewer people feel the pressure to stay in a marriage that doesn't work.
Because homosexuals know that after so much time together that something is spiritual de-valuable about their relationships. They have the burden of knowing that what they are doing is wrong. That's why so many of them flaunt their perversion to the public. They are more vile than those in heterosexual relationships and willing to do more things that is seen as obscene.
I think I read something like 63% of homosexual relationships end in divorce compared to 49% for heterosexual relationships. I can't verify this but it seems accurate.
Maybe cause they haven't had the right to marry as long as straight people have. So it will probably take a few more generations for their divorce rates to go down.
I know why, God didn't put it like that , listen god put adam and eve not adam and steve that is the reason why they can't live happy and divorcing so much.
Sexuality matters not for a healthy relationship. I could point out that have roughly 8 str8 friends that have gotten married , now divorced and the longest of these marriages have lasted 3 years... check your sources
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Cuz heterosexual married people aren’t in it for love; they’re in it for convenience.
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