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Why expect a marital commitment from someone you're not married to?

If you aint married you're single! Call it old fashioned or whatever else but why should you get upset with someone who has not made the choice to publicly acknowledge the relationship as a committed relationship by marrying you. Yeah I know, married people cheat too, but that's okay then for the partner to get upset because this person has broken a private and public vow . . . But if this person aint made a vow to you in private and in public among family and friends then it's leaving too much room in there for ambiguity . . . . that's just my opinion take it or leave it . . .
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I think it depends upon who you are and how you feel.
Marriage is not the only commitment one can have.
If I have made a personal commitment to someone, whether announced or not, I feel a personal obligation to live up to it. This is nothing that has been forced upon me, but rather a choice I have made.
To me, that is the only type of commitment worth having.
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Posted Nov 8th, 2009 at 3:54AM
Monogamy is the norm.
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Posted Nov 8th, 2009 at 3:54AM
im not married and i dont plan on it, i enjoy and appreciate the more important things in life, a certificate isnt one of them
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Posted Nov 8th, 2009 at 3:56AM
im guessing you just got caught cheating huh?
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Posted Nov 8th, 2009 at 3:59AM
Because lezbos like me ain't got the right to marry, so we just play house and pretend.
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Posted Nov 8th, 2009 at 4:02AM
People are weirdly possessive, I had a guy I had never even met get angry with me because he saw that I had connected with someone on Yahoo, another man, I had never spoken to this guy on the telephone, just chatted on Yahoo and on the dating site I'd encountered him on, he actually freaked on me. I left the site because I couldn't bear the thought of running into someone else like that
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Posted Nov 8th, 2009 at 3:56AM
I wouldn't waste my life expecting anything but to be treated with respect from any relationship partner.
marriage is a definition of monogamy.
love goes past monogamy and cannot be defined.
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Posted Nov 8th, 2009 at 6:02AM
I wouldn't expect anything more or less in a marriage then in a relationship. The rules are the same. Cheating, disrespect and a commitment still have the same meaning. It's just when you're breaking up in a marriage you've got a lot of paperwork to do. I don't believe in those "forever" promises, because people change, and I wouldn't want someone who doesn't love me anymore to stay with me just because they promised.
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