...yes. Very true. A failed marriage would have been more costly than a runaway bride. Yeah I'm bitter. I've a right to be. On top of the humiliation I've been the butt of many marriage jokes. Marriage is a four letter word to me. There won't be a wedding in my life. I don't see it. Unless gypsy has got that bride in white fairytale wedding out of her system.

that is very very true...

Im wearing black at my next wedding!!

I want to get married, but first I have to find a woman that would love me and that is willing to commit to commitment!!!

Well somehow I think you are better off that they refused to marry than divorce you but if someone crapped out on me at the last minute I would sue them for half the expenses that you both agreed on. If you spent a lot of money on a ceremony that was a choice and probably wasn't such a great one but if you have your family and friends together party on. Sometimes in life you have to turn lemons into lemonaid.

Marriage is a social contract with the community as much as it is each other. They now officially recognize you as a partnership and as partners you get specific guaranteed rights and responsibilities. Tax breaks, medical privileges, and family rights are far superior to shacking up. And when you divorce ranther than just split up things are suppose to be split equitably and debts assigned. There is a clear beginning and a clear end in marriage and divorce but when people live together that is always up for grabs.

The only thing I see that is inately unfair in marriage as our society practices it is that paternity for all children concieved during the marriage are the joint responsibility of the father even if it is not in fact his child. I see that being challenged in the courts in the very near future and the child being the responsibility of the biological father when the mother can be compelled to name him. If she does not then she has the full responsibility to provide. I think that will be more for a childs rights to claim his genetic identitiy rather than the societies right to pass off it responsibility to support a bastard child( sorry a legal term not a moral one). That I see more and more courts awarding custody to fathers as much as mothers and their rights more and more protected specificlly in marriage I can not see how a man would risk and out of wedlock pregnancy and having no rights. I still haven't figured out how come more varieties of birth control are available to men but that is their reproductive choices and and since men could control the research funding and and the market incentive with their input I have to say they don't seriously want a change from the status quoe.

I can see gypsy in black. Do I get to wear white?

wtf???? I thought you got married the other day???

She was a runaway bride!

No!!! You would look like a snowman!!!

Are you serious???

We were engaged, but it ended. Her commitment was obviously not there. It was at first, but giving up due to stress...shows that it faded away.

I can understand that. But there was no money involved for the wedding yet????

hey guys, I just got married in this other thread and it is GREAT. Like Tony the Tiger great. and you have no idea what you are missing.

Almost. The ring there was. But, the stress was from something totally different. My parents and her life at home. Both of us were dealing with it, but she already had enough stress to deal with. My parents put stress on me and she got stress from everything she was dealing with in her life before she made the commitment. It's ok tho, I don't hold it against her. I'm moving on to someone that can stand by commitment.

yes....if it is right,


there is nothing to compare it to


when it is right ~ it is so fabulous


so fleeting and so fragile


& rare & soooooo exquisitely perfect


and something to hold onto & cherish fully


with every fiber & ounce of one's being

Engraven.....youre already moving onto someone else?????

TAXXXXXXXXX breaks, I'm tellin ya!

Not really that, just moving on with my life. The woman left and I havn't heard from her since we split. So, I'm moving on.

i really need to learn the difference between my name and the adjective

LMFAO!!!