I did this little piece about the difference between living common law as a new longterm relationship norm and getting married. The comments are always fun. There’s a note on behalf of All Divorced Canadian Men telling me to stuff it, as well as the usual clever atheist drawing out the fact that Christians are Loons Who Cannot Think. Truthfully, I privately take bets on how early that remark will arrive. It makes it fun. Now the challenge for everyone else is to replace “Christian” with “Jewish” (“They are not to be trusted! They twist arguments!”) so that we all understand how clearly bigoted that kind of remark is. Tis the new normal. And if I couldn’t take it, I wouldn’t write columns.
Oh, and Happy Valentine’s Day!
Loons. Beautiful creatures, symbolic of Canada, who can swim great distances under water! I quite admire them, actually
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Good article Andrea. The comments were priceless. Too bad they were real. Just as real, I suppose, as the data you use which ‘should’ make those making comments think before they spout..
Nice job, Andrea. I didn’t check out the comments, though. They don’t show up on my mobile device, and I can’t say as I’m missing out.
Another thing living together (does anybody call it living in sin anymore?) does is it makes a marriage really anti climactic. For example, the reason a friend of mine who lived with her boyfriend before marrying him had for getting married was that she would save some money on the insurance bill.